Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John SiracusaTechnology

Accidental Tech Podcast episodes

October 15713: I Have Medium Hopes
Apple’s New Home-Related Products
HomeView
Newsroom
iMac G4
Intro video
TV commercial
Schneider press release
Wired’s review
WWDC 2026: Rev Up Your CarPlay App
Developer agreement
“HomeView” & “homeOS”
Apple TV 4K gen 4
Nvidia Shield TV
Newsroom
Intro video
MacRumors Buyer’s Guide
New Siri Remote
Precision finding requirements
HomePod mini 2
Newsroom
Intro video
Home collection
Newsroom
MacRumors
(See also the Schneider press release above)
Post-show: Casey got a UTR-LR
UTR
Flex Mini
Members-only ATP Overtime: Regarding Passkeys are a Trap…
Ricky Mondello’s response
Scott Helme’s response
Sponsored by:
Tailscale: A secure network that just works
Factor: Healthy Eating, Made Easy
Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last
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2 hr 15 min
October 08712: Mildly Technologically Traumatized
Pre-show: Marco tries a Waymo
Follow-up:
Casey’s MyBMW foibles
iMazing
Approov
BMW case study
Screen sharing
OBD-II
Home Assistant + Pushover + Shortcuts? (via Khaos Tian)
GL.iNet Comet Q
PiKVM
Lex Friedman: Claude writes code; I author the apps
AirPower desk video was by HTX Studio
…who previously interviewed Tim Cook! (via Elijah Yap)
Original video (via Adeiko)
Ubiquiti home Wi-Fi vs. Eero
Previously on ATP Overtime
A positive anecdote
A negative anecdote
FiOS CableCARD discontinuation
RecDiffs #295: If I Adjust for Europe
TiVo’s desperation
One-AirPod vs. two-AirPod audio settings
Settings → Accessibility → AirPods → your AirPods
M6/A20 Pro details
High Yield & SemiAnalysis video on A20 Pro
Timestamp link to cores discussion @ 9m37s
High Yield & SemiAnalysis video on the M6 vs. M5
Timestamp link to M6 layout discussion @ 8m9s
Timestamp link to core images @ 12m40s
Timestamp link to A20 vs. M6 core comparison @ 9m37s
Rumored October event
See also, new home trinkets?
Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
Jason Aten on Muse reading his iMessages
Meta calls foul
Post-show: Casey and Marco go Phishing
Q Barbecue
Capital Ale House
Allianz Ampitheater
Setlist
Recording
Cupertino’s
iPhone Duo 3D-printing model (you want the variant labeled “Fixed the large black areas showing through.”)
Members-only ATP Overtime: AppZapper 3000 and The Delicious Generation
Disco Demo video
John’s review of Delicious Library from 2004
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Sponsored by:
Coax: Channel-surf your home media server
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2 hr 18 min
October 01711: Hot Dog on an Actuator
Pre-show: Marco has M6 performance numbers
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern
The Marco Offset™
Follow-up:
John’s mouse pad (via Andy)
Rounded corners are, bad, maybe?
AirPower… desk? 🤨
John’s weird AirPods 5 issues
Finding Intel apps in macOS
System Settings → General → About → Intel-based Apps
Learn more…
M5 Ultra Mac Studio GPU scores
New Mac mini storage caveats
𝓍OS 27 Screen Time woes (Timestamp link to 8m50s)
iOS 27 vs. Pi-hole
dazfuller
Aaron Vegh
GM vs. CarPlay
Casey’s blog post
Casey’s mea culpa
Wait, just kidding
Apple Watch is listening…
Steve Riggins
What about “Hey, Siri”?
Nick Heer
MKBHD
Ask ATP:
What’s the highest mileage we’ve ever gotten to in a car? (via Elliot)
Saturn SL2
Nissan 300ZX
Nissan Maxima
Volvo 200 series
Honda Civic fifth-gen
Porsche IMS bearings
BMW VANOS
What is John going to do to deal with Gmail policy changes? (via Mark Bramhill)
Would Apple reuse the 2019 design for a phantom new Mac Pro? (via Ben Cooper)
Post-show: Casey tries to hack his car
Home Assistant
Wireshark
Charles Proxy
MQTT
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ternus’s “Intelligent Personal Hub” and Apple’s home AI hub
Digital Hub strategy (Timestamp link to 1h29m46s)
Intelligent personal hub
Gurman
Sponsored by:
Granola: The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings.
Claude: Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today.
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2 hr
September 24710: That New Mouse Pad Feeling
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern
The Marco Offset™
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Follow-up:
New treats
John
iPhone 18 Pro
John’s case
AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case
IP57
Dust protected
Immersion, up to 1m, for 30 minutes
Oddities
Volume control
Marco
Apple Watch S12 Ceramic
Apple Watch S12 bezels are bigger than S10?
Mac mini
Casey: Apple Watch S12 Aluminum
How should Apple have handled iPhone Duo dev tools? (via Oscar Echeverri)
Photos libraries on external drives (via Larry Fieman)
Preliminary M5 Ultra GPU Geekbench scores
Chart
Apple watch “Readiness Score” seem to be mostly bunk? (via Michael Katz)
iPhone Duo dev tools released
Aaron Vegh’s video
Post-show: Marco’s Mac mini update
Ubiquiti WAN Switch
GL.iNet Comet Q and the PoE one
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti’s new home Wi-Fi that does “full-duplex MLO
Previously discussed on ATP #672: Wi Hyphen Fi
The Disappointing Truth about Wi-Fi 7
Introductory video
Sponsored by:
Daft Music: Made for Apple Music.
Clic for Sonos: A premium Sonos companion. No lag. No hassle. Just music.
Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last.
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2 hr 14 min
September 17709: Steel-Cable Insurance
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
The Marco Offset™
Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video
Comparison video
Previously, in 2018
Making of (via Techzha)
Preliminary Geekbench scores
A20 Pro (iPhones 18 Pro)
CPU
GPU
M6
CPU
GPU
M5 Ultra
CPU
iPhone 18 Pro Max & Apple C2
Solar phone charging? 🤔 (via flanker)
Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and Space
Aperture blades on iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max camera
MKBHD’s review
PetaPixel’s Review
Explaining starbursts
Straight vs. rounded examples
Debate on DPReview forums
iPhones 18 Pro Face ID (YouTube timestamp link to 13m34s)
iPhone Duo
How will iPhone Mirroring work?
No Action Button 💔
The Duo does have a split keyboard
An aside about our enthusiasm for the Duo
Ternus & Joz interview part 1 & part 2
Thomas Ricker at The Verge
Stephen Robles insights
iPhone side-dock example
MagSafe accessories will be… tough
A Face ID complication (via Pedro Fernandes)
Apple Pencil support
USB-C Apple Pencil not Pencil Pro
Gruber
Steve Troughton-Smith
Fake bezel
Benjamin Mayo at 9to5Mac
Demo video (Twitter link)
iOS 27 doesn’t include automated password changing
Photos libraries on external drives (via Mike Brogan & Jason Snell)
Optimize Storage (via Jason Snell & Fabrice Neuman)
John’s cheap S3 setup
Configuration
CLI invocation:
aws s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration \
--bucket my-cool-bucket-name \
--lifecycle-configuration file:///Users/yourusername/Desktop/s3-lifecycle.json \
--transition-default-minimum-object-size varies_by_storage_class
_DavidSmith on iPhone Air & 17e sales
Gruber’s breakdown
iPhone 17: 36.5%
iPhone 17 Pro Max: 29.9%
iPhone 17 Pro: 29.4%
iPhone 17e: 2.5%
iPhone Air: 1.5%
Post-show: John needed Marco’s 3D printer
Oyen Digital MiniPro RAID V4 Dual-Bay
Modesty panel
Command Strips
Members-only ATP Overtime: The triumphant return of the Genius Bar?
Sponsored by:
Granola: The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings
zocdoc: Find the right doctor, right now.
Claude: Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today.
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2 hr 8 min
September 10708: Primary, Tertiary, and Third Cousin
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
The Marco Offset™
September 2026 event
MacRumors on the cellular chips
SynthID Standard
Apple Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview
Surface Duo
PowerBook Duo
Rafa’s toot about layouts
Apple Developer Videos
Post-show: Jetty update
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s new business terms in the EU
Ben Thompson’s breakdown
Gruber’s take
Adrian Weckler at Irish Independent
Sponsored by:
ElevenLabs: AI Customer Support Agents
Factor: Healthy Eating, Made Easy
Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last
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3 hr 5 min
September 03707: Haunting the Campus Like a Ghost
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
The Marco Offset™
Follow-up:
Luz fooled me, Jerry!
Extremely convincing fake by Daniel Luz
Mea culpa
Apple fooled us all
Siri blobs fix
System Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy → Content & Privacy (turn the switch on) → Siri → Writing Assistance (turn the switch off)
John is happy with new Macs timetable
Are photo libraries on external disks supported?
Knowledge base
Iris
Yankees / Sox in Apple Vision Pro
Dithering
Motivations for SME adoption (via shac ron)
✅ Tim Cook exit interview
AT 688: A Company Man at 1h8m29s (Overcast timestamp link)
Phil takes another step toward the door
Emma Roth at The Verge
Phil on ATP #317: We’re Customers Too
iPhone 17 / 17 Pro / 17 Pro max / Air Exit interviews
iPhone event preview
Post-show: John’s storage update
Backblaze B2
Amazon S3
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ternus & the Vision Pro
10 May: Mark Gurman
3 June: Juli Clover at MacRumors
21 August: Gurman
30 August: Gurman
Sponsored by:
zocdoc: Find the right doctor, right now.
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2 hr 6 min
August 27706: No One Is Getting a Good Deal Tonight
Pre-show: Marco’s casement windows
Screen clips
Screen clips, installed (white prototypes for visibility)
TPU for AMS
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Follow-up:
macOS 27 UI tweaks
Redesigned stoplights in β6
Video
Stoplights
Stretchy buttons
Video
Porsche 911, 996 generation
In defense of the fried egg Porsches
Turning off the Siri logo
macOS 27 got the new Preview icon
LLM determinism when temperature = 0
Write-up by Horace He
IEEE standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic
𝓍OS 27 Photos Shared Album gotchas
See also
Other people’s phones
Not sped up! All 1×!
i vs. I
Apple iPhone event announced
New Mac mini and Mac Studio
Core size comparison
SME replaces AMX in the M6
Exploratory Github Repo
AMX instruction set
SME Introduction
Hello SME
Longhorn Toot 1 and Toot 2
Marketing page section (via Daniel Luz)
Oops, it was a joke and we didn’t get it!
High Yield diagram
M3 Ultra vs. M5 Ultra vs. M5 Max
Mac mini
Video support summary from Tim Hardwick
Mac mini pricing history
…inflation-adjusted
Apple Upgrade program lease [un]availability
Gruber on pricing
Advertisement
Behind the scenes
Mac Studio
Gruber on pricing
Advertisement
John’s purchasing journey
The thing John mentioned that’s a spoiler
The accessory that’s also a spoiler
New […ish] keyboards!
MacRumors coverage
Apple Part Number: MJM4LL/A
Previously: MXK83LL/A
John’s keyboard (previously)
MMMR3LL/A
A2520
New polishing cloth!
MacRumors coverage
Copland Supply
Post-show: John’s new vibe-coded app
Front and Center
SwitchGlass
Hyperspace
DragThing
Icon
Members-only ATP Overtime: Is macOS slower than Linux when performing file system operations?
Theo Browne: Your Mac Isn’t Actually Slow, It’s MacOS Fault
Benchmark 1
Benchmark 2
Linus Torvalds on using C (timestamp link to 22m7s)
Sponsored by:
Tailscale: A secure network that just works
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2 hr 38 min
August 20705: Relentless in a Gentle Way
Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devil
Daikin
Home Assistant integration
Home Assistant Green
Follow-up:
The OpenAI doughnut
What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap)
Or perhaps red blood cell shaped? (via Chris Lawrence)
Biconcave disc
Time Capsule was to solve the laptop-backup problem
Multiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn)
RAMageddon
Apple gets lower display prices
Apple raises trade-in values
🎉 Unforgetful is out! 🎉
E-Mail Addresses That Would be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone
Skybridge
Mac Power Users #861: Stephen Builds a New Task App
Kanban
Quitter
Forecast
AI watermarking
Steganography
How Claude’s text watermark works
Pseudorandom number generator
A wonderful visual guide
Some 3Blue1Brown homework
LLMs explained briefly
Next-word prediction probabilities
Transformers, the tech behind LLMs
Temperature gives more weight to the less-probable
Image
Gruber’s take
Some responses to Gruber
Dan Moren
Daniel Jalkut
Gruber’s reply to the rebuttals
Dithering, 14 August: “Watermarks”
I Made This
Post-show: Casey has news
CarMax
Previously on ATP…
BMW i4
San Remo Green
A Better Route Planner
EV Stupidity Checklist
Members-only ATP Overtime: Other people’s phones (based on Stephen Robles’ video)
Sponsored by:
Tailscale: A secure network that just works
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2 hr 31 min
August 13704: Past the Ternus Horizon
Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn
Lutron Caséta Fan Control
Fanimation
Technology Connections video
Follow-up:
Marco’s favorite feedback (about Myke) was from Analog(ue) 😬
SQLite bug write-up
Blackbird
Post-show Neutral
Professional negotiators / “headhunters” are very much a thing
CarEdge (via John Siracusa)
Delivrd (via Roger Coxon)
Wall Street Journal (News+ link)
The Car Chick (via Juan Boyce)
The #1 trusted automotive expert for women and smart men
Your Car Buying Advocate (via Ian McCullough)
Two options from Colin Macdonald
Automatch Consulting
Insight Auto Consulting
Casey makes some discoveries over the last week
Justification from the midwest dealer
Ventilated seats
Laser headlights
Marco takes a spin as well
John’s passwords pro-tip
Codex Micro (via St. Chris)
Icon keys
John and Casey weep for a while about Verizon CableCARDs 😭
Backups
Time Machine has a fatal flaw (via Jonathan Dechko)
…but also a workaround (via Eric Jacobsen)
Transcend JetDrive
BaseQi Adapter
Are backups even necessary? (via Mustapha Hamoui)
Apple Upgrade
Lease agreements are between customer & financier, not the retailer (via Patch)
Apple Card also has 12 months interest-free (via Andrew Haglund)
RAMpocalypse
Apple is still trying to make fetch Chinese RAM happen
iPhone 18 Pro launch is looking… challenging
All of 2027’s memory made by the big 3 is sold out (🇹🇼 link) (via Kevin Beaumont)
New macOS & iOS 27 β5 icons
Siri
Chess
John pours one out for his homie
Keir’s observation about icon composition
Safari
Preview
Settings
Apple Watch overhaul rumors
The Casio watch everyone has (it’s small; here’s a bigger one if you want, or a more modern one with step-counting)
John’s Passwords pro tip
Post-show: John’s macOS update woes
Members-only ATP Overtime: More AI hardware rumors
Is OpenAI making a hockey puck or a doughnut?
Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
Sponsored by:
Factor: Healthy Eating, Made Easy. Use code atp50off.
Claude: Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today.
Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last.
Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
2 hr 9 min