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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

432: I Shouldn’t Need to Wiggle May 27, 2021

Show notes

Pre-show: Compacted sugar
Follow-up:
- John’s Jade/M1X Twitter thread
- Some speculation about the next Mac Pro
- Base-model 24” iMacs have only one fan
- MacBook Air’s rumored “ski feet”
  - Lord Matthew’s theory
- Apple support document clarifies lossless streaming details
  - John Voorhees’ take
- Bluetooth data transfer speeds
- Lossless vs. Lossy Encoding
  - MP3 & AAC & Opus
  - FLAC & ALAC
- HomePod & HomePod mini will support lossless
- HDMI eARC
- Spatial Audio and AirPods from David Steer
Apple TV 4K (2021 edition)
- Matt Craig’s tweet
- Installation/Migration Process
  - One Home Screen
    - Settings → Users and Accounts → [you] → One Home Screen
  - Accessibility → Increase Contrast → Focus Style
  - Home-button function
- Remote
- Calibration
Casey’s Apple TV Woes
Post-show: Casey’s Fan Resolution
- Casey’s fans
- Lutron Caséta Smart Fan Speed Control

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431: City of Chips May 20, 2021

Show notes

ALL of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Thank you, ATP Store purchasers!
Follow-up:
- Third-party menu bar items (via Daniel Jalkut)
  - NSStatusItemBehaviorRemovalAllowed in NSStatusItem.h
- Spatial Audio from Gui Rambo
  - CMHeadphoneMotionManager
- 24” iMac Reviews, including Jason Snell’s
  - Matching cords, accessories, desktop backgrounds, stickers, highlight colors, “hello” intro movie
  - Highlight colors via Sebastiaan de With
- Gasoline stabilizers
Apple Music adds Spatial Audio & Lossless at No Cost
MacBook Pro Ransomware Leak
- Casey’s battery/hub
MacBook Air Rumors
- John Prosser’s Video
- Dr. Drang on Battery Life
Gurman’s Report
Post-show: Casey & John’s Adventures with Eero
- Eero lights explanation
- Eero’s comparison page
  - Hint: use code ATP — it still works!

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430: Apple Did Not Eat That Food May 13, 2021

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Pre-show:
- ⅔ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
- Colonial Pipeline
  - How long does gas last?
Follow-up:
- Overpriced AirTag mounts
- Unattended restart with FileVault enabled
  - sudo fdesetup authrestart
    - Or, optionally, sudo fdesetup authrestart -delayminutes 5
  - softwareupdate -ia
- AppleTV and spatial audio
- AppleTV supports Wi-Fi 6
Apple’s bad hire
- Sommer Panage’s response
- 🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨 He’s already fired
Epic vs. Apple, and internal emails
#askatp
- Hiding the Dropbox menu-bar icon? (via Jason Bates-Brownsword)
- Could one swap a SoC? (via Chandler Kent)
  - Sarbanes-Oxley
- How does one back up a MacBook without a Time Capsule? (via John Larson)
  - Nifty MiniDrive
  - The Case for RAID
Post-show: Marco tried to use Ruby

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429: Digital Speedo May 06, 2021

Show notes

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14. (Don’t forget, members get 15% off!)

Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Follow-up:
- Some notes about the ATP store
  - support@cottonbureau.com
- Casey’s fans (the spinny kind)
  - Bond Bridge
- Purchases last week
  - AirTag quick impressions
  - Spree
  - Whistle
- FileVault performance
  - About encrypted storage on your new Mac
- FileVault and remote management
- John’s macOS 11.3 woes
  - FB9095615
- Jason Snell on 12.9” iPad and the old Magic Keyboard
- Jason Snell on driving a Model 3
- Sam Abuelsamid on vehicle-to-load
  - Jonny Smith’s review of the Hyundai Ioniq 5
The Basecamp fiasco
- Casey Newton’s summary posts
  - #1: Breaking Camp
  - #2: Inside the All-Hands Meeting that Led to a Third of Basecamp Employees Quitting
- Basecamp’s posts
- Ruby on Rails
- Woke
- Anti Defamation League’s Pyramid of Hate
#askatp
- What do we use to take notes? (via David Barber)
  - Due
  - AnyList
  - Day One
- Would we prefer writing against an abandoned API or the new hotness? (via Xarph)
  - ColdFusion
  - Berkshire Hathaway shares
  - Marco’s .WAV-parsing bug: FB9097026
- Where are the APFS de-duping space-saving scripts? (via whophd)
  - diskDedupe (App Store link)

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428: A Series of Rectangles Apr 29, 2021

Show notes

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14.

Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
“Fully vaccinated”
Joanna Stern’s C-Fed Interview
- CEO question timestamp link
Spring 2021 Apple Event
- Apple TV
  - Calibration
  - Remote Design & Pricing
  - No Acceleromter nor Gyroscope
  - Apple TV pricing
    - Apple TV / iTV
  - High-frame-rate HDR compatibility?
  - AppleCare+ for Apple TV
- Extended AppleCare+ for Macs
- iMac
  - Power brick/cable
    - Upgrade #350: The Time for Color is Now
    - 143 watts
  - VESA mount
  - Why not put Ethernet on all Mac adapters?
  - Why have high-efficiency cores in a batteryLiss system?
- iPad
  - 12MP front-facing wide camera with Center Stage
    - Center Stage will have an API
  - iPad RAM amount is listed 😱
  - 12.9” iPad Pro and older Magic Keyboards
- AirTags: for tracking your luggage
- Apple Premium Podcasts
- John’s Eero & Smart Outlet update
- EV charging from Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings and Dave Nanian
  - DoE Map Search
  - Mobil Speedpass
#askatp
- What would it take to get you into this [phantom] Mac Pro, today, John? (via Brian Ashe)
- Do we use FileVault on our personal Macs? How come? (via Lingxiu Zhang)
  - System Preferences → Security & Privacy → FileVault
  - Mat Honan’s tale of woe
- What’s the longevity of the M1 look like? (via Johann Neubert)
Post-show: Marco’s arms are on fire

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427: The Apology Remote Apr 22, 2021

Show notes

Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Spring 2021 Apple Event
Post-show:

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426: Loaded Baked Potato Apr 15, 2021

Show notes

Pre-show:
- [Hopefully not] Burning Down the House
- All of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
  - Thanks, Paul
Follow-up:
- Smart outlet update
  - Reconcilable Differences
  - For eero:
    Settings → Troubleshooting → My device won't connect → My device won't connect to my network → Temporarily pause 5 GHz
- Electrical resistive heating
  - Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
  - Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
- Casey has a CarPlay apostrophe epiphany
- Charging the i3
  - Go buy SuperDuper!
  - Types of EVs
Follow-out: Upgrade’s Discussion of TouchBar and HomePod
Apple event on 20 April
#askatp
- Single HomePod or dual HomePod Mini? What if there’s already a HomePod? (via Josh Errickson)
- What’s the point of BCC in email? (via Chuma Nnaji)
- How long until we see Apple using Armv9?
Post-show Neutral

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425: Hey Billionaire Apr 08, 2021

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Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
- Fork Hands
  - FU: Why two doses?
- Reverse Engineering the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
Follow-up:
- How is John replacing a router with a switch?
- Ubiquiti Flex Mini
- Handoff vs. AirPlay 2
- Zach’s point about WWDC announcement date
- Yep, Apple uses Webex
- Microsoft Teams
  - Perhaps it’s too many UDP packets?
- Heating your house via cryptomining?
  - Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
  - Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
- NSRunningApplication was added in Snow Leopard
- FB7603765 is fixed!! 🎉
- Tesla Model 3 Delivery Checklist
- Cryptocurrency 000 101
Supreme Court: Oracle vs. Google
- Ars Technica write-up
- MJ Tsai’s write-up
- Clean room
- GNUstep
- ApplicationKit
- Kotlin
- Arial
- New York
- Geneva
- San Francisco
- Swing
- POSIX
Tim Cook Interview with Kara Swisher
- Overcast link
- Dithering (see the 7 April episode)
- Upgrade #346: Float It Like a Hologram
- Outside Online Interview
- Tim Cook’s ∞ Timeline
- Apple Leadership
- oh no
Post-show Neutral: Marco’s injured Tesla
- BMW i3
- Neutral #4: If You See a Cursor, They Blew It

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424: Ethernet Squid Apr 01, 2021

Show notes

Pre-show:
- Read-only Tweetbot
- WatchConnectivity
Follow-up:
- [More] Tesla wheels of shame
  - Belvedere, CA via Alistair Logie
- AirPods Max warranty repairs (via Harrison Krebs)
WWDC 2021 Announced
- NSRunningApplication Radar Numbers
  - 48190148
  - 25521354
  - 22088473
  - 18980463
  - 21253274
  - 18890642
New Siri Default Voices
- Sample Recording
- Another Sample Recording
Ubiquiti Breach
- An aside about cryptocurrency
- Air gap
- eero
- pfSense
  - Their recent “whoopsies”
John’s Networking Situation
#askatp
- Should one use a non-administrator user account? (via Michael)
- How do I mash together 400 video clips into one file? (via Duncan Wilcock)
  - ffmpeg
  - Casey’s primer on ffmpeg
  - In short:
    - Create a file that refers to all 400 file names. Call it, say, files.txt
    - Each line of that file reads file 1.mp4, file 2.mp4, etc. One file per line.
    - Maybe something like this? ffmpeg -f concat -i files.txt -vf scale=4096:2160 three-hour-movie.mp4
- How does Overcast scrape iTunes? (via Brandon Wees)
  - SOAP
Post-show:
- Bell follow-up

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423: Fort of HomePods Mar 25, 2021

Show notes

What would it take to get Marco into a concert?
Follow-up:
- Tesla Wheel of Shame
  - Hong Kong (via Cilver Aullet)
  - DC (via TG Cid)
  - Houston (via Aaron Farnham)
- App Store Pricing Policing (via Tim)
- Games and Notarization
  - On Apple’s Piss-Poor Documentation
- HomePod follow-up
Some Membership Housekeeping
- Refunds for a very small group of you! 💰
- ATP Membership can be paid in 💶 or 💷! 💸
- ATP’s mid-year 👕 (& more!) are coming soon! 🤑
Mac OS X 10.0 is 20 years old today!
- John’s reviews & retrospectives
- robots.txt
Google Play Drops Commissions 30% → 15% for first $1M in revenue
- Marginal tax rate
#askatp
- When did photos become more than just files? (via Matt Fenselau)
- What’s up with Apple’s awful user experience with OS updates? (via Dan Young)
  - Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
  - Comparing Update Sizes from Mojave to Big Sur
- How would we wire our houses if we could do it all over again? (via Matt Youens)
  - Cat6
  - Ubiquiti
    - Dream Machine
Post-show Neutral:
- Casey’s new dongle

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