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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

412: Love Batteries Jan 07, 2021

Show notes

Follow-up:
- Accommodating hearing loss (via “Phredd Phlinstone”)
  - Settings → Accessibility → Audio/Visual → Headphone Accommodations → Audiogram
  - Example app from Maciej
- Big Sur Update
- Apple guidance on SMC reset via Tom Bridge
- Nintendo Famicom had a microphone built into the second controller
  - Video of Pols Voice & the microphone
- PS5 controller weight and “following” games
  - Tip from terence
- The galaxy’s largest black hole
  - sysdiagnose
  - Profiles and Logs
  - Stack trace
  - Casey’s MMS bugs FB8893003, FB8952395
  - John’s bug FB8711530
Marco Equipment Update
A brief #askatp interlude
- How does Marco sell his unwanted computers? (via Brian)
  - Mac Me an Offer
Marco’s other Christmas gift
Post-show: New Liss
- Analog(ue) #185: One of the Worst Things You Have Ever Done to Me

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411: Are My Instructions Not Clear? Dec 30, 2020

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Follow-up:
- Casey’s MMS problems and Apple’s bug-reporting black hole (FB8893003, FB8952395)
  - sysdiagnose
    - Settings → Privacy → Analytics & Improvements → Analytics Data
- More on Fitness+
- HDR photos
  - Settings → Photos → View Full HDR
- Screen brightness
  - iPhone 12: 625 nits typically / 1200 nits max
  - iPhone 12 Pro: 800 / 1200
  - displaymate.com indicates 825 nits in full-white image
- iCloud Photo Downloader (via Matthew Smith)
- OWC Thunderbolt Hub requires Big Sur 11.1
- Big Sur Update
  - SMC Reset
  - SuperDuper
- AirPods Max audio settings (via Matthew Taylor)
  - Settings → Accessibility → Audio/Visual → Headphone Accomodations
  - Tune Audio for Brightness, Strong
- AirPods Max “fat lightning” connector
  - Teardown
- AirPods Max Shield Case
- John’s iPhone 12 Pro case
  - Previously
  - Now
- The ghost of Marco’s computing past
The ghost of Marco’s computing future
Siracusa’s Playstation 5 review
- Destiny
- John’s Windows on Mac Pro adventure
- Nintendo Land
- Astro’s Playroom
- iOS 14.3 adds PS5 and Amazon Luna controller support
Marco’s Christmas gift
Post-show: More on the PS5

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410: The Comfort Is Killing Me Dec 22, 2020

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Pre-show: Living the M1 lifestyle
Follow-up:
- AirPods Max
  - Battery situation (via Barney)
    - Snazzy Labs video
  - Smart Case ∆s
    - 9to5mac
    - Apple Support
- Turns out, like the Pro Display XDR, the LG UltraFine 5K does have a fan. (via Joseph Duffy)
  - Also, it has been revised in the past.
  - Tinus’s tweet
- Chrome bug report and comments
- Jonathan Dietz continues to school us on chip packaging
- …and Thunderbolt hubs/controllers
Casey has tried Apple Fitness+
All three of us are having dangerous thoughts
#askatp
- Why do HDR videos look so great but HDR photos… not? (via Chris Lenart)
- Is there a way to prevent an application from stealing focus in macOS? (via Wes Chamness)
- What’s the best way to back up your iCloud Photo Library if it can’t fit on your Mac?
  - EXIF data
Post-show: Living the M1 lifestyle (reprise)
- The best laptop ever made

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409: Midrange Snob Dec 17, 2020

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Follow-up:
- Group MMS issues persist, and Casey is over. it. (FB8893003)
- AirPods Max and its competitors
  - Beoplay H95
  - Marco’s Closed Headphones Mega-Review
  - AirPods Max button and varying modes
  - Passive (powerLiss operation)
- Marco’s Computing Situation
Marco’s AirPods Max review
- Planar Magnetic / Orthodynamic Headphones
- ANC
- Apple Lightning to 3.5mm Audio Cable
- Competitors
- Bluetooth codecs
  - aptX
  - AAC
Chrome is Bad?
- Guilherme Rambo’s take

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408: Feature Headphones Dec 10, 2020

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Pre-show:
- Casey’s great news!
- Marco’s Slightly Unpopular Opinion
  - RealPlayer
- Marco’s new “experience”
Follow-up:
- Is Apple-Silicon-Ready?
- brew and Rosetta
  - Duplicating Terminal.app
  - brew using arch
- Chiplets & Multi-chip Modules (via Adrian Sampson)
  - Multi-Chip Module
  - High Bandwidth Memory
- Extracting images from a Google Doc
- In the defense of Apple News
AirPods Max
Post-show: Marco has scheduled his walk of shame

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407: It Isn’t a Big Grapefruit Dec 03, 2020

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Pre-show: You heard it here first: Marco is really starting to justify a new Mac.
Follow-up:
- You can restore stuff from iCloud here (via Ryan Fegley)
- Accelerated TensorFlow for macOS probably just uses the GPU
  - Neural Engine can be used as well, though. (via @hishnash)
- Apple did make an ECC RAM controller in the past (via Max Lein)
- Lots of info about scaling the M1 via Jonathan Dietz
  - Die size spreadsheet
- Cerebras, the big-die ML accelerator (via Andrew Bunner)
- Memory bus thoughts from Wade Tregaskis
  - Memory interface bandwidth
- Dual M1 Macs
- “Low-effort” Mac Pro
- TMSC Achieves Breakthrough in 2nm Manufacturing
  - What is “risk production”?
- Alexander Graf virtualizes ARM Windows on Apple Silicon
  - 9to5Mac
  - QEMU
Marco’s Mini Monologues
- Smart Speaker Size Comparison (scroll down a bit)
- Panzarino’s observation about Qi chargers
- …and his FU
#askatp
- Is it possible to disable the fan on the new M1 MacBook Pro? (via Matthew Taylor)
  - CoolBook
  - TG Pro
- What’s our deal with Apple News+ anyway? (via Bryan Hoffman)
- Component Motherboards : SoC :: ICE : Electric Cars? (via Kevin Doran)
  - VLSI
  - VHF / UHF
Post-show:
- Yes, John is aware of breadboxes.
- Tesla’s “Mission Accomplished”

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406: A Bomb on Your Home Screen Nov 25, 2020

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Follow-up:
- Fast resolution switching on M1 Macs
- Mac-optimized TensorFlow 2.4 fork makes things fly
- M1 Mac 8K render test
- Running iOS apps with IPAs
  - iOS App Store Package
- CrossOver runs Windows apps/games on M1 Macs — including 32-bit games!
- iOS 14.3 no longer opens the shortcuts app when launching apps from custom icons
  - Widgetsmith (App Store link)
  - HealthView
  - Apple Configurator
- GitHub’s ICE relationship is indirect
- De-duplicating Contacts
  - Card → Look for Duplicates...
It’s been ≈10 years since Build & Analyze #1. What’s changed?
Scaling the M1 architecture to higher-end machines
- Marco’s tweet
#askatp
- Robot or Not: Cache edition (via Chris Cioffi)
- Are we concerned about the longevity of M1 chips? (via Colin Devroe)
- Do we believe in cable management? (via Nick)
Post-show: Marco’s ruined backpack
- Peak Design Everyday Backpack 30L v1 clearance (current v2 model)
- Zojirushi SM-SD36 travel mug

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405: The Benevolence of the Powerful Nov 19, 2020

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Pre-show: Why are we recording early?
Follow-up:
- Casey’s watch band
- youtube-dl is back on Github
- M1 chip name predictions (Overcast link) (via Cameron Deardorff)
- ARM Macs and Touch
- macOS 11.1 is in Beta
- McGurk effect
  - Explainer Video
  - Text-based TikTok (via Erik Berlin)
- Casey’s weird discovery
Casey got new watches
- Gruber’s sizing pictures
- Studio Neat Material Dock
M1 Mac Performance
M1 MacBook reviews
App Store Small Business Program
- Six Colors Summary
- US taxes over the years
Post-show:
- Casey is begging for help on FB8893003. Please, Apple. Please.
- John’s iPhone 12 Pro cases sitrep
  - SENA case

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404: With Four Hands Tied Behind Its Back Nov 12, 2020

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Pre-show:
- THE ATP STORE IS BACK, BABY. Until the 14th. Act now!
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iPhone 12 Mini, Max press reviews are out
Casey had an oops
Apple Event
- M1 Name
- System on a Chip [Soc]
- Unified Memory Architecture
  - RAM on-package
  - Anandtech die shot article
  - Sky Shadow
    - Die Schwott
  - “Buzz Off”
- Custom Technologies
  - SIMD
- M1 performance
- MacBook Air
  - Binning
  - Casey’s beloved MacBook Adorable
- Mac Mini
- MacBook Pro
  - Dithering
The future of the Mac
- Longhorn’s tweet
Post-show: What did we order?

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403: A VCR for the Internet Nov 05, 2020

Show notes

The ATP Store is back until 14 November!
Follow-up:
- Casey is aware of the National Radio Quiet Zone
  - Verizon map
  - AT&T map
- Apple leather case covers the bottom, which chaps John’s bottom
- Moving 2-Factor Authentication to new phones
  - Google Authenticator’s changes (via Michael Koziarski)
- Reminders and Big Sur
- “Alexa” and “Siri” and using new hail words (via David Kenny)
  - Saoirse Ronan
- John’s 2x-camera usage
- iPhones and USB-C speeds over Lightning → USB-C cables
- Apple extending Apple TV+ free trial to February 2021
- John’s too-long Apple Maps directions
- What are Xcode xip files, anyway? (via Zev Eisenbergboo)
- “Small percentage” of Xbox Elite 2 controller problems
- “Small percentage” of AirPod Pro problems
  - Earwax type: The myth
  - Ear candling
youtube-dl, DMCA, and the RIAA, oh my!
Apple’s “One More Thing” Event
Post-show:

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