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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

422: Sell a Third Box Mar 17, 2021

Show notes

Neutral:
- The Wheel(s) of Shame™
- ProClip USA MagSafe holder
- Tesla Model Y vs. Ford Mach-E
- Tesla Model Y
- Ford Mach-E
Follow-up:
- Clubhouse no longer requires contacts access
- Apple/ARM/TSMC
  - Long writeup (via Marc Kagan)
  - Fabricators
  - RISC vs. CISC
- Family photo sharing clarifications
- Moving your data around
  - privacy.apple.com (via Ezekiel Elin)
  - Data Transfer Project (via Igor Makarov)
    - Adapters
    - Verge write-up
  - Got Your Back (via Hung Nguyen)
    - GAM
    - The Horcrux
- Why the iMac Pro was discontinued (via Sören)
  - Skylake-X and Skylake Xeon-W Discontinued
RIP HomePod
- iPod Hi-Fi
- AnyList
#askatp
- Why aren’t there more background notifications from apps that aren’t running? (via Nathanael Mol)
- Why does Overcast do processing server-side? (via Michael Hellwig)
- How much of iOS is still macOS? (via Surabh Kulkarni)
Post-show: iMac Color Rumor

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421: The First Miniboss Mar 11, 2021

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Pre-show: Marco is happy, though he shouldn’t be. ☯️
The iMac Pro is retired
- Gruber’s post
Follow-up:
- One reason to choose Audi
- Kiss Guy is real!
  - Interview
- Swift “header” views (via Ben Packard)
  - ⌃⌘↑ and ⌃⌘↓ or Navigate → Jump to Next/Previous Counterpart
- Logging into vaccinate.virginia.gov
Families: how do they work?
- No iLife is an Island
Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos
- Google Takeout
- Twitter Archive
- ATP #155: Edit, Crop, Aspect, Original for discussion of John’s workflow
Apple cracks down on apps with “irrationally high prices”
#askatp
- Whose fault is it that Apple Silicon is 🔥? (via Nick)
  - M1 architecture research
  - Wintel
- What would Apple need to do to make macOS gaming competitive? (via Matt Chapman Jones)
  - DirectX
  - Cell
- Do we use battery backups for our desktops? What about other ancillary equipment? (via Ramanujan Srinath)
  - What John and Marco use

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420: I Have No Urge to Speak Mar 04, 2021

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Follow-up:
- VPNs and Supervised devices
- Nickname preferences (via Julian Torres)
- Skydio’s absolutely bananas talk on autonomous drone obstacle avoidance
- The Talk Show #309: Pinkies on the Semicolon
- More on Clubhouse
  - Chat room
  - Gui Rambo’s investigations 🧵
  - “Ephemeral” Clubhouse
    - Steve Jobs Stories
    - Clubhouse is recording you
John “tried” Twitter Spaces
- Super Follows
- Twitter “Communities”
Overcast 2021.1
How’s Swift going for us?
#askatp
- Do we use non-ISP-provided DNS? (via Alex Guthman)
  - Pi-hole
- What’s our 🤬 problem with Electron, anyway? (via Nathan Roberts)
- Would we enjoy an Uber clone powered by Apple autonomous EVs? (via Matt Steiner)
Post-show: Why would one buy an Audi?
- Audi RS6
- Lexus vs. Mercedes

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419: This Week’s Gasp Feb 25, 2021

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Pre-show diversions:
- Posting the bootleg
- Casey’s [hopefully useLiss] worries
- Marco’s ball situation
  - Sonos Move
- Casey’s Compulsory Icebreaker
  - Requisite link
Follow-up:
- Jef e’s doubts about SMART tools
- Contacts API updates
  - Better Trust Through Better Privacy
  - Autofill Everywhere
- Google’s astrophotography mode
- Magnets and MagSafe (via Ante Söderholm)
- More on Supervised iPhones (via Marc Wickens)
  - Support document
- More on Clubhouse
Memory safe iBoot implementation
- Rust
MacBook Pro models with HDMI and SD card readers?
- Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
- XJACK
#askatp
- Is it safe to use a High Sierra machine after security updates cease? (via John Hovland)
- How do we store our parents’ names in our phone’s contacts? (via Colin Meney)
- How do I clean up my Dock? (via Harjas Monga)
Post-show: Some more kvetching about app-quitting strategies

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418: Dangerously Close to Being on a Phone Call Feb 18, 2021

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Pre-show: Join us in our Clubhouse! (That’s a joke; not happening. —Ed.)
- Chatroulette
- Party line
- Newton’s cradle
- Should Apple remove the Contacts framework?
Follow-up:
- Living outside the east coast… or America.
  - The UK explained
- The Concert for Charlottesville was posted
- Should timers sync? (via Richard Harris)
- What can Mobile Device Management really do? (via Chris Harper)
  - Support article
  - Helpful PDF
- An alternate way to think about RAM vs. SSD-wear tradeoffs (via Jonathan Dietz)
  - Example M1 smartctl results
    - dd
    - fs_usage
- Ada and MISRA C for car-computer safety
- T568A vs. T568B myths revisited (via Jon B.)
  - Stack overflow theories
iPhone 13 rumors
- Live Tiles
- Marco’s microsuction mounting tape
Post-show: Casey’s new toy
- Several-year-old Mavic footage
- Marco’s old toy

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417: Sand and Water Interface Feb 11, 2021

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Pre-show:
- RIP, Call Recorder
- On re-installing or transferring macOS
- If we had to leave the eastern seaboard, where would we move?
Follow-up:
- DTKs are worth more now!
- iOS 14.5 Watch unlock
- Trying to ls ~/.Trash (via Mike Vosseller)
- SSD traffic
  - Two month old SSD
  - smartmontools
  - smartctl --all /dev/disk0
  - Casey’s computations
    - Casey’s data
    - John’s data
- Marco accidentally invents Docker
  - Docker on M1 Macs
  - VMWare Fusion on M1 Macs
- Tesla recall 135,000 vehicles for touchscreen failures
- Mid-reboot turn signals in the Model 3 (via Michael Swindler)
iOS 14.5 beta lets you specify Spotify/others as Siri’s default music service
- INPlayMediaIntent
- INMediaItemType
Marco rants about timers on the Apple Watch
Dan Riccio’s new project
- microLED
- Intel’s USB commercial
#askatp
- Do we let our personal lives bleed onto corporate devices? (via Jordan Cosentino)
- What are our favorite or most obscure media files? (via Doc Davis)
- Is it rude to put another app’s name in your own app’s search keywords?
Post-show: Pupdate
- Kikopup

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416: I Will Take Away Those Kudos Feb 04, 2021

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Pre-show: Strong corporate affinities
- Neutral #12: Vomit Ruins Everything — Marco & Casey’s BMW European Delivery experience
- Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now — Marco, Casey, and Underscore’s BMW Driving School experience
Follow-up:
- Tesla
- Limiting Siri’s Messages Announcements
- Telling Siri to 🤫
- Developer Transition Kit returns
- iOS 14.5 Beta adds support for unlocking iPhone with Apple Watch while wearing a face mask
  - Gruber’s take
- Apple replies to one of John’s old Radars
  - TN1150
Sony ɑ1
- Canon EOS-1D X
#askatp
- Do we use CleanMyMac X/OnyX/etc? (via Donald Rabideau)
- Does a small amount of RAM limit SSD lifespan? (via Dan Blondell)
- How do simultaneous writes to a SSD work? (via Jan Philipp)
- Would Apple ever offer iCloud Backup for macOS? (via Aidan Trager)
  - Backblaze
Post-show: Marco is snowed in

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415: Sent Without Pants Jan 28, 2021

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Follow-up:
- Marco’s new computer (This is not a joke. —Ed)
- T568A vs. T568B myths busted
- Reminiscing about the PowerBook G4’s ethernet port (via Travis Pouarz)
- The 30” Apple Cinema Display and print design (via Ted Barnes)
- Audio accommodations (via Christpher Klein)
  - Mimi (App Store link)
Dan Riccio goes into a bunker
- Creative Selection
More Mac laptop rumors
- Bloomberg
- Patently Apple
#askatp
- How much do macOS and iOS cost? (via Brenden Becherer)
- Do we care about the Sent with Siri footnotes in Messages? (via Rohit Sharma)
Post-show: What is Tesla doing‽

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414: Promoted Onto the Roof Jan 21, 2021

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Pre-show: John’s pecking order
Follow-up:
- Curved screens to solve off-axis viewing (via Nathaniel Cohen)
- AirPods Max headband removal
- Brighter whites
  - OxiClean
  - /System/Applications/Utilities/Digital Color Meter
- Wiring Gigabit Ethernet
- Feedbacks, Casey’s Bug, and Chris Hayes’ tweet
  - Attaching a sysdiagnose on iOS
    - applefeedback://
    - Open the feedback → … → Add More Information → Add Attachment → Device Diagnosis
  - FB8893003
  - FB8952395
Ming-Chi Kuo and Bloomberg laptop rumors
- Jonathan Mann’s “I’m Pressing The Spacebar” song
- 20 Macs for 2020: Power Mac G5
Desktop Mac rumors
- 20 Macs for 2020: Power Mac G4 Cube
Post-show: Casey has feelings about purchases

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413: Suddenly I’m the Marco Jan 14, 2021

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Follow-up: Casey makes John reminisce about Atlanta[’s food]
Follow-up:
- “Is it bigger than a breadbox?”
- The Feedback app will automatically run a sysdiagnose
  - John’s bug (as mentioned on Twitter): FB8711530
- Casey’s bugs are still broken, even though Apple tried to 🤬 close them
  - FB8893003
  - FB8952395
- The shocking conclusion to Marco’s Thunderbolt ethernet situation
Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative projects launched
Marco’s Pro Display XDR review
- John’s review (Overcast link) from Episode 360
- Aerial Screensaver
- Samsung Frame TV
John’s AirPod Anxiety
- Ted Lasso Roundtable
#askatp
- How is it going from shared-iTunes, separate-iCloud accounts to Family Sharing? (via Peter Yang)
  - Mac Power Users #522: iCloud Family Sharing
- What are we using for computer speakers? (via Genaro Diaz)
  - Paradigm Atom
  - KEF LS50
  - KEF Q150 (Marco’s computer speakers)
  - KEF Q350 (Marco’s TV speakers)
  - Kanto SUB8 subwoofer (Marco’s computer subwoofer)
  - SMSL AD18 amp with subwoofer output
  - SMSL SA50 amp
  - GigaWorks T40
  - Logitech Z625
- What do we use to keep track of finances? (via Gage Benne)
Post-show: CES: Worse Products Through Software

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