556: Apple Chips Are People

Follow-up:

Overall St. Jude winner: James Neal

John’s window bug

Polling rate does make a difference

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Polling rate to window quantity experiment

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Macs vs. Chromebooks in education (via John Weston & Steve Ligett)

Upgrade #480: Never Do a Deal with the Preference Daemon

Jason on Apple’s ∞ Permissions Dialogs

John gets his Photos.app wish

Off-center holes aren’t new

Alcantara iPhone cases

Alma

Casey’s ★★★★☆ iPhone case

In defense of the utterly ridiculous Razer phone coolers (via Adam)

Peltier effect

Revisiting tire pressure management systems (via Mattias Lindblad)

Casey’s adventures with stop-charging-at-80%

AirPods Pro 2 as concert earplugs

Soundbrenner Minuendo

Others tried: Eargasm, Etymotic ER20XS, Earpeace, Vibes, Mumba

CodaRoom Custom High-Fidelity Earplugs

Rewind.ai Pendant

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

#askatp:

What makes Apple’s designs so much better? (via Buckaroo Ponzi)

P.A. Semi

Nuvia Acquisition

Do we segregate our user data? (via Alfred Flynn)

How can an iPad-first user back up their photos? (via Joseph Zoller)

Post-show: An optical-disc journey

Drive

Discs

Power Photos

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