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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

262: A Clear Path to Okayness Feb 24, 2018

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Casey's new career of missing obvious programming solutions
Siri all up in Daniel Jalkut's business
Sonos and wood
Who has a HomePod?
- Echo Spot
- Google Home Mini
Doubting Apple
- "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
- Creative Nomad
Siri
- The Talk Show #215: The "Press Real Hard" Era
Apple pumps the brakes
- Six Colors 2017 report card
- Steven Sinofsky tweets: 28, 31, 32, End
#askatp
- Modular Mac Pro saves the Mac Mini? (via Barton Meeks)
- Why should one avoid monkeying with framerates? (via Alastair Campbell)
  - MakeMKV
- How do you preserve ebooks? (via Benjamin Esham)
  - Calibre
Post-show: Post-show Neutral: Car buying challenge

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261: Seven-Dollar Plastic Garbage Feb 16, 2018

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Pre-show: Shake Shack, Five Guys, and Cookout
Follow-up:
- Battery feedback: 1, 2, 3
- Casey's boneheaded mistake
- Marco's grocery-list apps
  - Clear
HomePods put a ring on it
Waze
- CarPlay
- Valentine 1
#askatp
- Are advanced safety features in cars comparable across marques?
- What's the deal with Leica cameras?
  - Marco's M9 review
Post-show: Parenting

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260: The Todoyist Problem Feb 09, 2018

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Follow-up:
- Is throttling old phones really better?
- Does anyone other than tech bloggers give a 💩 about smart speakers?
- Raspberri Pi music player update
  - Plastic Player
  - Mini NES Console
Apple's emoji is theirs and you can't have it.
Marco's to-do app spirit walk
- Taskpaper
- Due
- AnyList
- Clear
- Todoist
- Omnifocus
- Things
- Fantastical
- Calculator Construction Set
#askatp
- Does Casey miss C#/.NET?
- Single vs. multithreading
  - Embarrassingly parallel
- Meditation
Post-show:
- Baby update
- Casey's Car Corner

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259: I Hired Myself Feb 01, 2018

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Who ordered a HomePod?
Casey orders an Ethernet adapter
Casey's Mac "app"
Marco's secret project
#askatp
- Long-term file storage
  - M-Disc
- AAA games for iOS/tvOS (via Lewis Thompson)
Post-show: Casey on Cars Episode 2: Alfa Romeo Stelvio Ti

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258: Non-Beta Data Jan 25, 2018

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Follow up: Battery replacement reticence
iOS 11.3 battery health messaging
macOS Spectre and Meltdown fixes go back to El Capitan
HomePod preorders and ship date announced
- Some interaction tidbits
iOS 11.3 preview
- Bohemian Rhapsody Animoji Karaoke
- Jason Snell's wishful thinking
tvOS 11.3
macOS 10.13.4 and the end of 32-bit
#askatp
- Unifying 3D Touch and long presses (via Todd Vaziri)
- What is AirPlay 2? (via Alex)
  - WWDC 2017 Session
- John's spines (via Andrew Lymn-Penning)
Post-show: BMW are money-grubbing jerks
- Gruber's clarification
- CarPlay availability

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257: Smell the Wind Jan 18, 2018

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Casey and Erin had a baby!
- John's first and second dad comics
Casey's photo management workflow
Follow-up: Europe's black Mac
PCalc About screen, revver of fans
ARM Windows PCs
Windows 10 Sets
#askatp
- Non-Pro iMac upgrade cadence (via Erik Berlin)
- John's 🧀 grater (via Andy Hume)
- Messages in iCloud (via Kurt)
Post-show: A gift for Casey

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256: A Heroic Threshold for Pain Jan 11, 2018

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Apple's Meltdown/Spectre statement
iMac Pro peripherals on eBay
Follow-up: Arctic Silver
Follow-up: Battery replacements and solving customer problems
Follow-up: iPhone X screen burn-in
Marco's iMac Pro, one week in
Sony α7R III review
- DP Review on the α7R III
- Canon 5D Mark IV
#askatp
- Would apple delay the Mac Pro for a new CPU architecture? (via Clint)
- What does root do that sudo doesn't? (via Bryson)
- Sonos One w/ Alexa? (via Jim Andeway)
Post-show:
- Baby baby baby
- Tyco Typhoon Hovercraft
- Typhoon over water

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255: The Thermal Paste Lottery Jan 04, 2018

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Apple's battery slowdown PR
- Accelerated rollout
- The Talk Show #210: Australian Battery Scam
- Phone throttling isn't always the issue
iMac Pro thermal throttling
Marco's iMac Pro
- Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard
Intel CPU exploit
#askatp
- What if we had to use iOS? (via Aaron Bushnell)
- What if we had to use Windows? (via Brandon Butler)
  - Audacity
- What if we didn't have advertisers? (via Mark W)
Post-show: Marco stages an intervention for Casey
- Free Agents #34: I Think I Just Got Fired

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254: Hot Box With Knobs Dec 26, 2017

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Follow up:
- Secure Boot KBase Article
  - Cabel's screenshot
- Women car journalists
  - From last week: Cars from a Woman's Perspective
#askatp
- Attention detection and Apple Watch (via Scott Lougheed)
- RAID and SSDs and Thunderbolt (via Max Velasco Knott)
  - Tiff's OWC ThunderBay 4 Mini
    - Noctua quiet fan
- Soundproofing in our in-home studios (via Joshua Rogers)
iPhone Performance and Battery Age
iOS and macOS apps as one?
Post-show: The Grand Tour season 2 review (so far)
- Sabine Schmitz

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253: I Think I Ordered One Dec 20, 2017

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Follow up:
- Jeep Wranglers
- iMac Pro RAM upgrades
- iMac Pro input devices
- Mac Pro will be "upgradeable"
- iMac Pro orders
#askatp
- Entry-level open-backed headphones (via JD Lewin)
  - Schiit Fulla 2
  - Grado SR60e: $80, but uncomfortable
  - Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro: $225, for treble lovers (250-ohm recommended)
  - Sennheiser HD 650: $300, for treble haters
- Car magazines for kids (via Jeremy Nachman)
- Do we really need ECC RAM? (via japhisu)
  - Google study
  - IBM study
NVIDIA vs. AMD GPUs in Macs
- CUDA
More about the iMac Pro
- Table of Skylake Xeon workstation processors
- T2
  - Startup Security Utility
  - Recovery procedure
Post-show Analog(ue): Marco reflects on his interesting phone call
- John's autobiography

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