Breaking Change

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v33 - Apathetic Intelligence Mar 15, 2025

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I hope you ordered your podcast spicy, because this version is a slow heat, but it builds. I was pretty fired up by the end of this one. If I crossed a line here, please report it to HR at podcast@searls.co and they will conduct an investigation.

Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube.

I tossed this bouquet of URLs in the air but no one caught them:

Tailwind 4 Upgrades
Aaron's puns, ranked
There's a new cringey Star Fox-like coming
Shenmue 1 & 2 mixed up the axial tilt
Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate
The history of 3DFX
The first portable Xbox could hit shelves this year
Steam Decard VR thing could also be coming
Tim Sweeney's been Elon-pilled
Is Tesla Cooked?
Cybertruck panels are flying every which way
SpaceX's Starship is fucked, apparently
Why LLMs aren't like Einstein
LLM refuses to code
No one knows what the hell an agent is
crmne/ruby_llm is a new Ruby gem for interacting with LLMs
Vision Pro let this guy see in 3D
iOS 19 will overhaul the system UI
Live translation is coming to iOS 19 (sort of)
RCS is getting End-to-End Encryption Between Android and iOS
Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation really is
iPhone 17 Ultra may be coming
Google bricked Chromecast
Mozilla bricked Firefoxes
Microsoft bricked a bazillion PCs
Meta is run by a human brick
China bricked the field of public health
Stay tuned to Changelog next week - I'll be on it!
Shogun - where the Japanese speak period-appropriate Japanese and the Portugese speak modern British English
Avowed - the best damn game I've played in a long-ass time
There's a new Vision Pro strap-on in town
Star Trek Enterprise was good, actually
Allstate's human engineers screwed up so the LLMs wouldn't have to
AI Snipd is a podcast player

v32 - Large Lemon Model Mar 03, 2025

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Turns out I'd accidentally been letting some of your e-mail get filtered as junk mail. I want to be clear that I don't think you're junk, Apple does. Write in with your feelings to podcast@searls.co and I'll read it, assuming I get it.

Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube.

Without further ado, links!

POSSE Party
Aaron's puns, ranked
Don't invite anyone you like to a measles party
Sorry vegans, plants can feel pain
Reddit will add a paywall
Junior developers know how to code even less than usual
GPT 4.5 is a lemon 🍋
Insecure code is how you get Nazis
Ben AI shows off how the hustle bros are thriving with AI
This is the video I'd share with friends and family to explain AI
Mostly non-AI reasons the job market is frozen
Hacking your Eight Sleep to frustrate fascism
Apple pulls encryption from island that famously likes surveilling people
A Vision Pro app is coming to iPhone
Apple debuts iPhone 16e
Is Apple's first cell modem maybe better than we expected?
In 18.4, Apple Maps finally adds a language setting
Spatial AI assistants with Sidekick for Vision Pro
Shoresy is back for Season 4
Avowed is a good game

v31 - Full Searls Driving Feb 16, 2025

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Update: This is the first version of Breaking Change available in 4K video. Check it out on YouTube.

The one where Justin picks the perfect time to buy his first Tesla vehicle.

Sometimes the things I say and do make people feel things. Share those feelings with me at this e-mail address: podcast@searls.co. Whatever you're feeling, I'll read it and do my best to acknowledge it. I also may read it on air. Unless you ask me not to, in which case I won't.

Okay, so anyway, there are links to be lunked:

The RuboCop pull request I referenced having talked about in this month's newsletter
The Space Black Firanto paint I tried to use to heal my M4 MacBook Pro
The little travel router that I'm using strictly for my Vision Pro
Sponsored content: you too can have bad timing when you buy a new Tesla with my link and get $2500 off, apparently.
Aaron's puns, ranked
The ESA announces new "iicon" event after running E3 into the ground
Apple finally lets you migrate purchases to a different Apple ID
Prediction: iOS 19 features a new UI toolkit that looks a lot like visionOS and this new Invites app
Google eliminates the woker half of its holidays calendar
TikTok is so back, baby
Netflix is connected to the Apple TV app! (lol, psyche!)
What the WikTok story can teach us about programmers' future job prospects. (Not much)
Gaudy Jeep ads are ruining Stellantis's terrible reputation
Godzilla Minus One: Two is coming
Even Disney is worried about the high cost of Disney
A major visionOS 2.4 update is around the corner (Archive link)
A youtube essay about "work games"
Tape to Tape is hockey videogaming at its finest
Yakuza: Like a Dragon's business management minigame is all I need.
I also needed Alien: Romulus, though

v30 - Mall of the Gulf of America Feb 01, 2025

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If you're here for the spicy, good news: you're gettin' it spicy.

I am usually joking, but I mean it this time: I'm going to stop doing this podcast if you don't write in to podcast@searls.co. Give me proof of life, that's all I need. I won't even read it on air if you don't want!

If you're not bored yet, click the links:

Becky did a reel of our twin birthday cruise
Aaron's puns, ranked
Fewer than 200 people bought Resident Evil on iPhone
Apple Invites and GroupKit are gonna save us from Doodle
Apple cancels the AR glasses you hadn't heard about
Android XR is even more of a rip-off than Android was
Vision Pro is getting Unreal Engine support
WTF is Deepseek
My own declaration of competence
I've started work on my first fuckthis.app, and it's already doing stuff
Nintendo's Alarmo clock
The Wild Robot is not as bad as it looks
Star Trek Unification
Persona 3 Reloaded
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black
Via Prem: Exit 8 and Platform 8

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v29 - Super Switch Jan 19, 2025

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In this episode: Justin goes to a birthday party, drives a Tesla, and configures your BIOS.

The compliments department is, as always, available at podcast@searls.co.

Have some URLs:

v28 - Do you regret it yet? Jan 04, 2025

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I don't normally do this, but content warning, this episode talks at length about death and funerals and, while I continue to approach everything with an inappropriate degree of levity, if that's something you're not game to listen to right now, go ahead and skip the first hour of this one.

Recommend me your favorite show or video game at podcast@searls.co and I will either play/watch it or lie and say I did. Thanks!

Now: links and transcript:

v27 - The Punsort Algorithm Dec 31, 2024

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HEADS UP: This one has a video version in case you'd prefer to watch that!

HEADS UP SEVEN UP: Here's a spoiler-free link to this year's puns as they existed prior to this recording.

Welcome to a very special Holiday Edition of Breaking Change: our first annual Breaking Change Punsort! Today, we're joined by a surprise guest! Want to know who it is? You'll just have to listen and find out. Yes, it's Aaron.

As always, you can e-mail the show at podcast@searls.co. If you enjoyed this episode and want to see a second annual edition next year, let me know! If you don't write in, I'll stop—because editing multiple speakers plus video is a massive pain in the ass.

No links today, because we didn't actually talk about anything worth citing.

v26 - Luigi's Mansion Dec 14, 2024

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I'd write more here, but I've got places to be. Becky, Jeremy, and I are going to engage in some holiday festivities. We have a couple gingerbread houses to make and a tree to trim. And no nog to speak of. Really, that's all you get by way of show notes this time as a result, deal with it.

Send your complaints to podcast@searls.co and they will be read on air.

Some bullet points below the fold:

My 90-minute, outdated guide to setting up a Mac
Aaron's puns, ranked
Jim Carrey is 62 and can't even retire
I bought my 8 year old a switch and didn't realize how much games cost
Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000
Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds
Install the Mozi app (manifesto here | app here)
Vision Pro getting PSVR2 controllers
The 2024 Game Awards news roundup
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet looks badass, but is it too inclusive for The Gamers?
We don't talk about Luigi
An invisible desktop app for cheating on technical interviews (HN comments)
Sora is out, but it's not good yet
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is out, and it is good yet
Emudeck is so great it shouldn't be legal, and some people probably think it isn't
Pikmin
Stay tuned to my YouTube channel for upcoming LIVE streams

v25 - Ghost Engineering Dec 06, 2024

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I left the country for a few weeks to get that taste out of my mouth but now I'm back and as salty as ever. Brace yourself.

I made a pretty strong appeal that you should e-mail the show at podcast@searls.co, so I won't repeat myself here. DO IT. DO IT NOW.

Hopefully I'll be back at least once more before we call it for 2024. Stay tuned. 📻

Correction: In the opening segment, I said (twice) that the Gender Equality section chief took me to Tokyo to see 紅葉 in 2005, but it was actually Kyoto. I regret the error
iOS 18.2 adds two-step shutter to the Camera Control
Aaron's puns, ranked
The MacBook Upgrade Program
What will the Command Center look like?
Tim Cook hasn't forgotten how to long divide
The Camera Roll is less slow now
Intel is so boned
Google is approaching that level of bonedness (News+)
Ghost Engineers 👻
LLMs seem like a bad business to be in
AGI is right around the corner but don't worry, it sucks
Get your work done before the day gets poisoned
Wonder Project J
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket
Gladiator II is good
I hope Steam Deck is, too
Neeto Products