Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

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

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January 14, 2025622: Duplicate Garbage Generation Process
Follow-up:
AirPod noises
Gui Rambo & AirBuddy
One of the noises is “the case battery is low” (via Zach)
Also, more on status lights (via Tom French)
Another noise is a calibration noise (via Ian Williamson)
Knowledge base
How to turn off charging sounds
Look, ma! We’re famous!
AirPod Noises (via Patch)
TVs at CES 2025
Hisense’s 116UX with RGB mini-backlight
Digital Trends coverage
HDTVTest coverage
DLSS
History (via Hampus Jensen)
Explanation (via flunkedflank)
Digital Foundry explanation video
Mac monitors
Some foreign options (via Henry Chen)
MacRumors thread
Kuycon G27-X
Another option (via Tim Ngwena)
Asus ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV
Quick look video
DisplayHDR 600 spec
Dynamic Island Live Alert (via Dan Engler)
🤮 Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inaguration 🤮
The Verge
Google and Microsoft join in
Citizens United
Nvidia bends a knee
Charles Erwin Wilson’s nomination for Secretary of Defense
TestFlight subscriptions on macOS
TestFlight for ATP members
Name reveal
Manage subscriptions API
Marco and Casey price John’s app
Post-show Neutral:
Winter report card for Tina’s Civic
Casey has connected Erin’s car to Home Assistant
Marco’s new[-ish] car update
Members-only ATP Overtime: Honda EVs at CES
Afeela (Honda 🤝🏻 Sony) 1
Honda Zero
Ars Technica
Acura NSX
F-4 Phantom II
F-16 Fighting Falcon
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2h 25min
January 09, 2025621: I'll Meet You Any Time You Want
Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them
20k Hz
The Sound of Apple 1.0
The Sound of Apple 2.0
Auto-Tone (Rivian)
statuslight.com
Follow-up:
That gas car review post that Marco was thinking of
Former example
Actual link we couldn’t [previously] find (via K)
Another example
And another
The Find My app can make Macs make noise (via Miles)
Maybe iOS 18’s Photos app isn’t all bad? (via Tim Luft)
The Magic Mouse
The Apology Mouse did not have side buttons
The Mighty Mouse did
MKBHD’s blind ranking interview with Tim Cook
Editorialized reel
What will the new one be?
Ridiculous mouse rumor
Gurman’s take
Hello, Computer
Death to buttons?
Death to ports? (In the name of handedness)
Maybe ape the Logitech MX Anywhere? (via Karan J)
Perhaps a common charging approach?
Apple already makes Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chips (via Ian Williamson)
Meshtastic is another application for John and Casey’s new favorite thing, LoRa (via James Andrews)
CES 2025
TVs
What’s John got his eyes on?
Sony 💔
Samsung’s new QD-OLED
HDTVTest
Digital Trends
LG’s flagship goes MLA → Tandem OLED
Microlens
Tandem OLED
Panasonic talks about the new LG panel
“Primary RGB Tandem OLED Panel”
HDTVTest on the Z95B
More “AI” coming to TVs ☹️
Big TVs are big
LG Unveils UltraFine 6K Display with Thunderbolt 5
Recent ATP Overtime on monitors was in Episode #618
Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor “U3224KB”
Dell no longer makes XPS computers
Mocked at their own launch is not a great look
Engadget’s take
Nvidia’s announcements
Nvidia announces RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs
DLSS 4
Explainer video from Nvidia
Deep learning super sampling
John’s post featuring a video about the responsiveness of touch interfaces
Nvidia AI supercomputer “Digits”
~~Concepts of~~ a plan for desktop CPU
TestFlight access to John’s app is [likely] coming for ATP members only
Post-show:
Thanks, Patrons 💙
Marco bought something.
HDCP
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence summaries may get warning labels
BBC report 1 and report 2
Apple’s response
Allen Pike’s Apple Intelligence evaluation
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2h 13min
January 04, 2025620: Mostly Cookies
Pre-show:
Holiday results
Steven Levy: Gone, Without a Trace
Casey’s impending mess
John needs technical support
Follow-up:
Satirical posts about gas cars from the perspective of EV owners
FotS Spencer’s find (discussed on the show)
The one we were actually thinking of (found afterward by K, thanks!)
On Recents in the Finder sidebar
Michael Starke points out it isn’t new
Odin points out it’s a default
Joe Lion has complaints
Possible next-generation Vision Pro displays (via Erich Jurgens)
Vison Pro teardown
Samsung’s screen breakthrough
Sony’s OLED microdisplay
Be suspect of iPhone Mirroring on corporate Macs
Original blog post
~/Library/Daemon Containers/{…}/Data/Library/Caches
iOS 18 Photos hate (via Quinn)
Apple’s Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chip, and Magic Mouse update?
MKBHD asks Tim Cook about the Magic Mouse
Post-show: Casey has joined the YoLink bandwagon
Casey’s super-shady installation
LoRa
Casey’s starter pack
YoLink FAQ
John’s starter pack
Water Leak Detector
YoLink store at Amazon
Members-only ATP Overtime: Fast Directory Sizing
WWDC 2016 #701: Introducing Apple File System
Direct video link
Slides PDF
About Apple File System
Apple File System Reference
dirstat.h
dirstat.c
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1h 47min
December 26, 2024619: Master Plan to Take Over the World
Pre-show:
New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show
Become an ATP Member to listen
ATP Gift Memberships
Follow-up:
“Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim)
Can Marco recognize waveforms?
Descript
Emo Siri
It started before 18.2 (via Dan Mielcarz)
She pahks heah cah… sometimes? (via Dave Martin)
Immersive video
More about the Blackmagic immersive camera (via videoalex)
Insta360 Titan
Software-based immersive video
Depth Anything
Immersive video prior art (via James O’Loughlin)
Welcome to Light Fields
Deep View Video
Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (via Joseph Humfre)
Demo for the Meta Quest
John’s app
More on Smart Update and clones from Dave Nanian
Unexpected gains in software (via Peter Marks)
Why even bother, asks Harvey Simon
New Vision Pro content — again!
Apple and bootable macOS backups
Mike Bombich at Carbon Copy Cloner has thoughts
Original blog post from May 2021
Secure boot
asr: Apple Software Restore
Ask ATP:
Does the new Recents item in Finder conflict with Apple’s privacy stance? (via Cira Mazzola)
What’s the correct location to save random scripts? (via tuckerk)
~/bin
/usr/local/bin
Do we use the macOS firewall? (via Saul Sutherland)
What are we using for cameras these days? (via Torstein)
Fuji X-T5: black recommended for control legibility
27mm pancake (41mm equiv.)
16-50 zoom (24-76mm equiv.): small, light, great quality
16-55 f/2.8 II zoom (24-84mm equiv.): surprisingly small and light for f/2.8, great quality
Fuji GFX 100S (old version; this is the current one)
50mm “pancake” (40mm equiv.)
Olympus OM-D E-M10
Sony a7 III
SEL2470GM2 Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II
Post-show: Erin’s Volvo XC90 PHEV, ~6 months on
Including a detour to discuss professional Christmas light installation
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Best & Worst of 2024
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2h 13min
December 19, 2024618: Type System Says No
New member-exclusive ATP Insider: Making The Show
Follow-up:
John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app
A funny conspiracy theory shared by Thomas Alvarez
Christian Kent’s correction/joke
More app name ideas…
Experts have weighed in on John’s idea
Alternative space-saving idea from Timm Schoof
Using self-service parts for upgrade is not really possible because ✨software✨
Pinstripes are back, baby!
Jeff Johnson
Reddit post
Is Siri… emotional… now?
Marco’s new e-ink toy
Integrations
API
Note that it’s backordered for a bit
New Wildlife immersive video episode
Blackmagic announces immersive video camera
_’s toot
Quicktime VR
Matterport
Apple Vision Pro 🤝 PlayStation VR2 Controllers
PlayStation VR2
Steve Jobs quoting Alan Kay
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Post-show: John’s app progress
Casey’s thoughts on [dire lack of] Apple documentation
Meet StoreKit for SwiftUI (WWDC 2023)
Apple’s Backyard Birds sample app
map(_:)
Hacking with Swift
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Mac monitor situation
5K is 5120 × 2880
Marc Edwards’ chart
Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K
At the time of recording, on sale for $720
Jason’s review
ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV Professional Monitor
Review by D. Griffin Jones
BenQ PD2730S
ASUS ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV
Apple’s plans
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2h 17min
December 13, 2024617: An Incredibly Dangerous App
Pre-show: Laundry tactics
Follow-up:
Last (?) batch of football (🏈) news
Channels
Simon B. Støvring on the Festivitas holiday lights
CGPath
Casey’s phone could recognize his washing machine chime
Apple has a self-service repair store (via Ricky Haase)
FotS Jonathan Dietz Jr. on SSD performance
M1-M3:
ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3NVMeController
M4:
ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3CGv2Controller
M4 Extreme is allegedly canceled
Original post on The Information
Gruber’s take
The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
John’s adventures in saving space
Symbolic links
Hard links
ditto
diskDedupe
SuperDuper!
visionOS 2.2, macOS 15.2, and Mac Virtual Display
Casey’s toots
At the library
Mac Virtual Display in action
“Study Room 1”
Casey is such a dork 🤓
Post-show: Should Casey delay a Callsheet launch in hope of an App Store feature?
Members-only ATP Overtime: Macintosh emulator is forbidden from third party app stores 👎🏻
Apple’s self-described notarization boundaries
Notarization Review Guidelines
Mini vMac
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1h 60min
December 06, 2024616: I Have No Grippers
Pre-show: Marco [re-]discovers progressives
Follow-up:
Yet more football (🏈) news
Seriously y’all, the Giants are so bad 😭
TVEverywhere & Channels
AVP immersive content tallies (via _)
Cleaning a Mac keyboard while screensaver lock is on (via Paradise Pete)
We are one again asking you to consider CleanupBuddy
Another explanation for ballooning app sizes (via Alex)
More thoughts on Mac SSD upgrades (via FotS Jonathan Dietz, Jr.)
Anobit
Yet apparently reverse-engineered upgrades are coming?
Polysoft
Kickstarter
Luke Miani tries it
Threads tests allowing users to choose their own default feed
Ivory
Reeder
Tapestry
Zuck’s post
Pat Gelsinger is out at Intel
Ben Thompson’s take (Paywalled)
Ben Bajarin’s take
Larrabee
Fairchild Semiconductor
#askatp:
What do we wish we could add to our apps, but Apple prevents?
The Mac is the Model
Festivitas
Post-show:
Members-only ATP Overtime: Photography Corner
Tips from FotS Tyler Stalman
Cropping isn’t always necessary (via Nicholas Gaffney)
Psychology of photography (via Matt Johnson)
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2h 10min
November 26, 2024615: A Mildly Brisk Walk
Pre-show: All John’s apes gone
Follow-up:
Casey has found yet new ways to make himself miserable
Sunday Ticket updates
On sale!
It was free yesterday… kind of
TV Everywhere
An alternative approach
DAZN
NFL Replay
Tailscale and Exit Nodes
Concert for One: Raye
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
NPR Tiny Desk Concert: Raye
Using large external drives with macOS
Photos library
An anecdote from Marc Wickens
Booting from an external
Downloading large App Store apps
App Store → Settings
Competition for the wall-mounted HomePad (via Alesh Houdek)
Apple Intelligence notification summaries
Steve Troughton-Smith
Chris Hancock
DOJ says Google must sell Chrome
Google’s spin response
Ben Thompson’s take
Gurman on a “more conversational Siri”
#askatp:
Can one push computation onto the performance cores? (via Andrew Hodgson)
iStat Menus
Why are apps getting so big? (via James Wilby)
Post-show: Thanksgiving logistics
Members-only ATP Overtime: Services on macOS
Łukasz Rutkowski’s toot in Sean Heber’s thread
Services on macOS
Making a system-wide service
ThisService (now defunct)
Github
In Automator
Save your .workflow files in ~/Library/Services/
To assign a keyboard shortcut:
System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts (button) → Services (sidebar) → Text (list section)
FastScripts
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2h 5min
November 23, 2024614: Don't Puke for the Show
🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Movie Club: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Follow-up:
The Weeknd: Open Hearts
Link to the video itself
Lensrentals: Vision Pro
M4 vs. M4 Pro Mac mini SSD speed ∆s (via Thor Johansen)
Quinn’s video on PC equivalents to the Mac mini
Apple storage pricing
Mac mini vs. PlayStation 5 Pro
Apple vs. market SSD prices
Retailers are also hamstrung
M4 MacBook Pro uses quantum dot technology
Graphs
Alternative drag cancellation options
iOS Inactivity Reboot
Wes Davis at The Verge
404 Media (Paywalled)
Demo video
Reverse engineering
#askatp:
How is an M4 Ultra expected to outperform PC GPUs? (via Ammar)
Should macOS-as-a-file-server people worry about bitrot? (via Yannic Boysen)
APFS in Detail: Data Integrity
Post-show: Casey’s adventures in remote television
Channels
Beelink N95 Mini S
HDHomeRun Connect
DTV Reception Maps
Members-only ATP Overtime: Is complaining about Apple’s prices useful? Do we have any effect?
Progressive vs. regressive taxation
(Apple is the former)
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1h 58min
November 14, 2024613: Dress for the Chip You Want
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Follow-up:
Aperture was not a purchase; it was developed by Apple. (via Jason Sims)
“Plain” M4 MacBook Pro and external displays (via Eric Roch)
Mac mini
“Modular” storage
Quinn’s teardown
dosdude1 demonstrates an upgrade
Apple 8TB SSD Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro
Differences between M4 and M4 Pro SSDs
Benchmarks
M4 512 GB
M4 Pro 512 GB
iFixit Teardown
Apple’s replacement guide
Other tidbits
Heatsink differences
256 GB = 2× 128 GB
Wi-Fi & Bluetooth are their own PCB
#askatp: setting up external SSDs (via Peter Welpton)
Thunderbolt performance limits
Geekbench scores across Apple Silicon (via Wes Campaigne)
iPhone Pro Clock speeds
Ken Case’s observation
Apple’s smart home ambitions
#askatp:
Should users be worried that 8/16GB RAM is “claimed” by Apple Intelligence? (via andrewsleigh)
Why can’t Apple make a Studio Display with MacBook Pro backlight technology? (via Henri Sivonen)
What power user hacks can we not live without? (via Ryan Tierney)
Alfred
Rocket
SwitchGlass
Front and Center
Post-show: Marco’s Mac Mini setup
Marco’s OWC drive enclosure
Members-only ATP Overtime: Vision Pro cheerleading
Patrick’s original question
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1h 60min

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