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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

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681: The Price of Your Nightmares Mar 05, 2026

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Pre-show: The best (but slowest) website on the internet
- Million Dollar Homepage
- 2013 BMW M5 (PDF)
- 2014 Honda Accord (PDF)
M4 iPad Air
iPhone 17e
New displays (‼️)
- Studio Display 2
  - A19 per MacRumors
  - Some excellent throwback snark from Jack Wellborn
- Studio Display XDR
  - Day-one software update
  - Mac support
    - 120Hz-worthy Macs
M5 MacBook Air
- No change in RAM upgrade pricing?
M5 Pro & M5 Max
- Efficiency cores still exist
M5 Pro & M5 Max MacBook Pros
- If you squint, a 64GB MBP got cheaper
MacBook Neo
Post-show: John had a post break containment
- Context collapse
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s video podcast experience

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680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese Feb 27, 2026

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Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow blows woes
- TruFuel
Follow-up:
- Casey got the CableCARD email 😭
- YoLink alternatives (via Joe)
- House batteries & V2H/V2L (via Russel Prouse)
  - F-150 Lightning
- On the value of M𝑥 Pro processors (via Rick Baumhauer)
- Tahoe window resizing workaround (via Nathan Manceaux-Panot)
  - defaults write -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize 8
  - defaults delete -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize
- macOS document model
  - …was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7
  - …and noted in the beginning of the Mac OS X 10.8 review
  - Final Cut Pro X does auto-save (via Ian Robinson)
    - Technical details (via Videoalex)
  - Microsoft Office 365 also auto-saves onto OneDrive in Windows (via Éric)
  - Saving files in Xcode (via Alex Kent)
  - Returning to Save As… (via Eric deRuiter)
    - System Settings
      - Desktop & Dock → disable Close windows when quitting an application
      - Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts create an entry under All Applications for Save As… (using an ellipsis by typing ⌥ ;) and assign it to ⌘⇧S
  - Notepad++ (via Emily Campbell)
- Alternative to Due (via Patrick Dumontel)
  - GoodTask
Apple March 4 “experience”
- MacRumors’ roundup of low-cost MacBook limitations
Apple to manufacture some Mac minis in the US
Ask ATP:
- What are our current home & lock screens? (via Sagar Patel)
  - ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen
  - John: lock & home
  - Casey: lock & home
    - Indigo
    - Croissant
  - Marco: lock & home
- What’s our current desktop headphone setup? (via ziplyne)
  - Overtime on ATP #675
  - Casey
    - AirPods Pro 3
    - Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 32Ω
    - Desktop speakers
      - Sonos Era 100 × 2
      - Sonos Sub Mini
      - Sonos Combo Adapter
  - John:
  - Marco:
    - Podcasting
      - Beyerdynamic DT775 Pro 250Ω
      - Beyerdynamic EDT1770D Earpads
      - Schiit Jotunheim 2 (an older model; current is Jotunheim 3)
    - Music
      - HifiMan HE6
    - Speakers
      - KEF Q150 / LSX II & KC62
      - Amp for Q150: Fosi Audio BT30D
Post-show: Casey’s driven more cars
- BMW i4 M50
- Audi e-tron GT
Members-only ATP Overtime: Skill shortages, Apple Silicon, and AI
- Empowering the Next Wave of Silicon Engineers
- Gell-Mann amnesia effect

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679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself Feb 16, 2026

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Pre-show:
- Marco beach… and app… cleanup results
- We’re recording ✨from the future✨.
Follow-up:
- Should Casey look at a used Lucid Air for ~$50k?
- Marco’s defection move to Chrome (via Sarvagnan)
  - Helium Browser
  - unduck.link
- Window resizing in Tahoe (via Jeff Johnson)
  - “Resolved Issue” → “Known Issue”
- AirTag 2 & speaker tampering
- Cloudflare Open Access (via George Black)
  - Explanatory video
- Fastmail 🤝🏻 Perl
  - Fastmail’s donation
  - John’s referral link
- Another Apple purchase migration warning (via Nick)
  - Support document
YouTube is on visionOS (App Store link)
Studio Display 2 to be… 90Hz? 🤨
New devices not on the latest-and-greatest TSMC process?
Where are you, M5 Pro MacBook Pro?
Ask ATP:
- What kind of battery backup should one use? (via Allen Shull)
- Why do we think Ternus is a good idea as CEO? (via Kevin B.)
- What’s the deal with Save As…, Duplicate, etc? (via Carl Walther)
  - The new document model was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011
  - More from John’s Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review in in 2012
Post-show: Casey’s Status Board
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apparently everyone is stealing TV
- ReplayTV

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678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers Feb 12, 2026

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Pre-show: Marco HVAC update
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: After Apple
Follow-up:
- Units corner
  - Robert Tait’s video
- WarGames display reincarnated (via everyone)
  - ATP Movie Club: WarGames
  - WarGames
- AI
  - Whoops, we whiffed on disclosing past/future sponsors 🤦🏻‍♂️
  - Steve Troughton-Smith’s experimentations
    - Three apps in one day
    - On usage limits
  - Dread & fatalism
    - We Mourn Our Craft by Nolan Lawson
    - The Tipping Point by Thomas Ricouard (Medium link 🤢)
  - Productivity promise vs. reality
  - Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by Rachel Thomas
  - AI-Generated Code Quality by Mark Levison
  - Comprehension Debt by Aman Shekhar
  - Your Brain on ChatGPT by Nataliya Kosmyna et al
- Some related links from our AI conversation:
- Steam Machine & Steam Frame delayed due to component shortages/price increases
Ferrari Luce
- Andrew J. Hawkins at The Verge
- Walkthrough video with Jordan Golon at PRNDL
  - Associated post
- Dieter Rams
- Patek Philippe Nautilus
- Braun
- Gordon Murray Automotive Type 50
  - Shift knob & switchgear (timestamp link to 18:04)
  - Other videos
- Leica
Post-show: Casey is car shopping
Members-only ATP Overtime: China’s ban on electric door handles
- Tesla hit with another wrongful death suit by Andrew J. Hawkins
- Flush door handles & efficiency by Jonathan M. Gitlin

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677: I Accept the Battery Cost Feb 05, 2026

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Pre-show: Icepocalypse update
Follow-up:
- Casey’s unit conversions are helpful… ish
- Other authentication options for John’s Cloudflare apps
  - Cloudflare Access
    - Zero trust architecture
  - OpenID connect
    - tsidp
    - Pocket ID
- Per-pixel lighting and human perception (via David Schaub)
- The state of MicroLED
  - Robert Tait of The Hook Up
- Claude Code & AI ethics
  - Alec’s video
  - Irish wind farm
Top Dogs in Apple Vision Pro
Marco’s experiment
- Cortex
- DuckDuckGo
- Kagi
Apple adds agentic coding to Xcode 26.3
Post-show: Tesla kills off the Model S and Model X
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s rumored AI pin
- Apple buys Q.ai
- Ryan Christoffel

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676: A Sternly Worded Instruction Jan 29, 2026

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Pre-show: Snowpocalypse update
Follow-up:
- atp.fm passkey update
- Google Private AI Compute
- Apple 🤝🏻 Google Cloud
- Removing copy/paste crud (via rauli)
- Screen on RAM
- ASUS improves color accuracy for Mac users (via Oliver Thomas)
- Modular headphones
  - AIAIAI (via Graham Dobie)
  - Tyler H’s review of the Fender Mix and Fairphone Fairbuds
- Window management in macOS (via Ben)
  - FlashSpace
  - AltTab
New AirTags
- The chime has changed from F → G
Apple hosting LA event
- Invite image
- Jason’s Creator Studio review
TCL has bought Sony’s TV business
- TCL Super Quantum Dot
- TCL X11L
John Ternus takes over design at Apple
- Sebastiaan de With → Apple
- Who makes design decisions at Apple, anyway?
Post-show:
- We stand with Minnesotans.
- John’s new bff
  - XKCD #974: Pass the salt
Members-only ATP Overtime: TikTok in the US is under new ownership… for real this time

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675: Open, Retrieve, Expand, Load Jan 22, 2026

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Pre-show: Snowpocalypse is coming for Casey
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Automotive Logos 🗣️
Follow-up:
- We’ll talk TCL/Sony next week!
  - Gruber’s post
- Top Dogs is coming
- “Cloud technology”?
  - Google’s blog post
  - Gurman’s post
- Clipboard hijacking
  - It’s an Apple thing
  - No, really
- Indonesia is not small
- MainStage is not new (via Mike Taffet et al)
  - Interview
- Apple’s Pro Apps Bundle still exists for education users (via Pekka Salonen)
- Pro apps free trials
  - Prior art (via Karoline)
  - The trials are full versions (via Ian Robinson)
- Monitors at CES
  - DisplayPort alternate mode for USB-C
  - What about color accuracy?
    - Extended Display Identification Data
- ProMotion in Safari
  - iOS: Settings → Apps → Safari → Advanced → Feature Flags
  - Test
- Vision Pro does have Keynote
Icons in Tahoe menus
- Nikita Prokopov
- Jim Nielsen
- Colin M. Ford (and an explanation)
- Apple’s guidelines
You don’t have bad aim; it’s Tahoe
How to prevent Tahoe update nags
Ask ATP:
- Was Alan Dye a better or worse steward of software design than Jony Ive? (via Austin)
- Will Alan Dye’s departure affect a touchscreen MacBook Pro? (via Tom Armstrong)
- What is our favorite macOS style? (via Nate)
  - macOS Screenshot Library
Post-show: John’s migration continues
Members-only ATP Overtime: Fender’s first wireless headphones

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674: A Reliable, Boring Partner Jan 16, 2026

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Pre-show: Casey’s dreams were squashed
- Ubiquiti Travel Router
- Verizon Jetpack
- Marco’s hotspot (newer models exist; check for refurbs, they’re way cheaper than new)
- Solis Edge
Follow-up:
- The Grim Reaper FiOS CableCARD email came for John
  - TiVo Roamio Pro
  - Casey on Downstream
- Temporal dithering (via Kyle Foreman)
- Dagnabbit, the screen count is just too damn high
  - MSI MEG Vision X (Screen grab)
  - MSI Lightning RTX 5090 (Screen grab)
- Wi-Fi channel selection & size
- Wi-Fi 7 8
A tour of Apple- (or John-) relevant monitors from CES
- As a reminder…
  - Apple Studio Display
  - Pro Display HDR
- MSI MPG 271KRAW16
- DisplayHDR 1400 certification
- MSI MAG 271KPD7
  - Monitors Unboxed
- ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM (Photo)
  - HDTVTest
- Subpixel arrangements
Apple Creator Studio
- Icons over time
- Photomator lives on… for now (via Chris Welch)
  - MacRumors
- Apple’s defense of the icons
- Jason on iWork freemium
Apple 🤝🏻 Google
- More from The Information
Chase to become the new issuer of Apple Card
- FAQ
- Back story on the Wall Street Journal (Apple News)
Post-show: NBA Immersive
- Stratechery
- Dithering
Members-only ATP Overtime: The continuing disaster at Twitter
- Elizabeth Lopatto: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
- Dan Moren: Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store
- Bloomburg: Musk’s Grok AI blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia over sexual images
- Robert Hart & Jess Weatherbed: X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK

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673: Six Impossible Things Jan 08, 2026

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Pre-show: Casey has a question for Marco
Thank you, ATP Patrons!
Follow-up:
- Cord-cutting
  - Casey on Downstream
  - suppose.tv
- Multi-select in iOS Contacts.app (via many, including Simon Ljungberg)
- The Studio Display is $1600 (via Greg Seay)
  - Quinn’s video on making a 5K display
- Display flickering (via Stephen Perelson)
  - This started in late 2020 with Big Sur
  - Temporal dithering (AKA Frame rate control)
  - Stillcolor to disable temporal dithering on macOS
  - BetterDisplay for turning on and off GPU dithering
    - Docs
- PlayStation Portal
  - …works with PlayStation Plus
  - …but really needs solid Wi-Fi
  - …and doesn’t support Wi-Fi 6
  - …and requires wired or first-party Bluetooth headphones
- Double-tap title bar to Fill (via Chirag Desai)
  - Knowedge base
  - System Settings → Desktop & Dock → Window title bar double-click action → Fill
- Wi-Fi 7
  - Ubiquiti’s Wi-Fi 7 implementation is not great (via Reid)
    - WPA3
  - WPA3 is not well supported (via USB Type-Steve)
  - Alternatively, try band steering (via Patch)
  - Wi-Fi Pro Abraham Vegh weighs in
  - …as does pro Saul Sutherland
  - John’s Eero Max 7 setup
- Thread vs. Matter
  - Thread
  - Matter
  - Derek Seaman’s series
  - To run Matter in HA, you need a separate container
- Apple Fitness+ and Quitter’s Day
  - Bodi
ASML & TSMC
Tech stuff we’re looking forward to in 2026
- Gartner hype cycle
- The Trow of Disillusionment
Post-show: Casey bought something silly
Members-only ATP Overtime: Strange form factor rumors for forthcoming iPhones
- The Information
- MacRumors
- Mockup image & video
- Jason’s & Stepen’s posts
- iPhone fold display quietly debuted at CES?

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