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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Accidental Tech Podcast episodes:

September 27, 2023554: Is This Your Dog?
Pre-show: Marco is… somewhere unexpected
Modern 5G hotspots vs. tethering
Casey’s travel router
🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
The Marco Offset
Podcastathon Part 1
Podcastathon Part 2
Follow-up:
John’s PR
…and Docker explorations
fish
iPhone 15 data transfers over USB-C
Samuel Polay’s Apple Store experience
Chris Jones’ experience
USB-A ↔ USB-C adapters (via Eric Merrill)
EdgeGate
LeakGate
Sharp Tech
CaseGate
Casey’s planned case
Anker USB-C cable (the cable that didn’t fit)
Umefly USB-C cable (the cable that does fit)
Apple silicone case (via Ben Rabicoff)
Viticci’s staining
Apple Store examples
Straps are the answer? (via Gem)
Apple & chip binning
A17 Pro is powerful but not efficient?
Razer Phone Cooler Chroma
People, Pets, & Places
Initial iPhone reviews
Casey’s car in 3× & 5×
Goose in 3× & 5×
Lenses
John’s real bokeh
Post-processing an automatic portrait mode photo
Casey’s PopSocket
Post-show: Marco discovers America
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1h 56min
September 23, 2023553: Cut the Bridges to the Mainland
Pre-show: John’s enhancement requests
🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
The Marco Offset
ATP Top Four: Laptops. Join to listen!
Follow-up:
Apple-products-save-your-life video
Apple Watch Ultra 2 naming
Titanium watches
Cost ∆s (via Dan Provost)
Warranty (via Doug Miller)
Hermès leather straps (via Gruber)
Casey’s live adventure
Related The Verge article
Marco’s option
Apple Watch Assistive Touch is from 2021
Apple “blue” over time
iPhone 15 Pro & Pro Max repairability helps consumers too
iPhone 14 Pro back glass: $499
iPhone 15 Pro back glass: $169
iPhone 15 & 15 Pro cameras
14 Pro 🤝 15 Pro (via Andreas Netzmann)
PetaPixel was confused too
The arrangement changed
iPhone 15 != iPhone 14 Pro
5× Pro Max is 25% larger than the 3×
3× camera has not changed in three years 😱
iPhone 14 Pro can also take 48 MP HEIF images
PetaPixel camera review
DPReview
USB-C begets external display support
Apple support document
Panic on The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
USB-A ↔ C adapters are fire hazards‽ (via Praveen)
Example
iPhone 15 Pro & diffusion bonding (via Robert Newman)
iPhone 15/Pro/Max battery life & 3nm
Revegnus’ tweet
Kal’s tweet
Nuvia
Lawsuit dropped
iPhone 15 Pro & Thread radio
Close-up photos of a FineWoven case
Similar to Peak Design case?
Apple 2030
Apple’s press release on “carbon neutral” (via Josh Angelsberg)
Environment FAQ
Tim Cook at Apple in 2030
New York Times interview from 2020
Gruber’s post
Geekbench 6
Single-core
M2 Max: 2,803
Intel Core i9-13900K 3 GHz: 4,220
Multi-core
M2 Ultra: 21,299
Intel Core i9-13900KS 3.2GHz: 29,015
Does Apple make the fastest laptops?
Luke Miani
Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs
#askatp:
How does mp3 chapter images work? (via Joel Labes)
The “animated” chapter art was the ending theme song in ATP 244
How does binning work with silicon chips? (via Ammar)
Is USB-C’s successor on the horizon? (via Jason Falleiro)
Post-show: Rivian follow-up and some interesting hacks
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2h 7min
September 14, 2023552: Not a Saturated Year
Pre-show: Marco’s Wi-Fi Woes
RealPlayer
🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
The Marco Offset
Apple Event on September 12
System in a Package (SiP)
System on a Chip (SoC)
Six Colors’ small discoveries
GE fuel injector AM article
Dr. Drang’s post on iPhone physics
Grade 5 titanium
iPhone 14 teardown
Action button settings UI video
Sony Xperia 1 IV
Not in the keynote:
iOS 17 on 18 September
Sonoma on 26 September
USB-C Lightning Adapter
Apple kills MagSafe Duo & MagSafe Battery pack
Post-show: What color is Marco’s car?
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2h 43min
September 07, 2023551: Tickle Rock You
Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
Follow-up:
iPhone 14 Pro 2× vs. cropping a 1× photo
iPhone 14 Pro Dynamic Island
Flighty
Sports Alerts (App Store link)
You can update TCL Roku TV via USB (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
Apple Park & garbage cans
Apple Event on September 12
WiFi 6 vs. 6E
Google Pixel ad
Czinger 21C
Twill
Post-show Neutral:
Rivian is canning their ugliest paint option
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2h 38min
September 01, 2023550: A Wizard With No Choices
Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
Follow-up:
Obscura 4 is out! (App Store link)
Alternative TCL TV workarounds (via Chris Berryhill)
Child Gmail Accounts
Children cannot set up email forwarding (via Henri Sivonen)
Child accounts are ripe for recovery issues (via Sriram Karra)
Trouble in HomePod paradise
iMac G5 perks (via Aaron Walker)
Ads on the ATP YouTube channel
Truck routing
Truck Map has a skip button (via Ezekiel Elin)
Garmin sells bespoke truck GPS units (via Jonathan Llamas)
Some recommendations (via Andrew Larson)
inRoute
TomTom/Garmin
Apple Event on September 12
Exit Interviews
iPhone 14
Watch Ultra
Watch Series 8
A special Exit Salute
Post-show: Casey’s new vibraslap
DS1621+
Western Digital Red 18 TB
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2h 6min
August 24, 2023549: Unauthorized Trash Can
Pre-show:
Marco’s box truck
TruckMap
Trucker Path
🗣️ New ATP Membership Survey 🗣️
(This is for everyone, not just members)
🗣️ New member special: ATP Tier List: Every iMac 🗣️
Follow-up:
iMac Tier List
Intel Core vs. Core 2 ∆s (via Michael Gabriel)
Marco claims vindication
Core Duo Geekbench 32-bit: 2,327
Core 2 Duo Geekbench 32-bit: 2,423 (4% faster), 64-bit: 2,739 (17% faster)
How much faster is “2 Duo” than “Duo”?
21” was (eventually) Retina, writes Max Wilkie
More text editors
CotEditor (via Taher Rangwala)
Chime
Pronouncing “Niléane” (and more)
Apple can’t design for humans
Photo editing on the Mac (via Ezekiel Elin)
(•••)
⌘ ⏎
Dumb TV workarounds (also via Ezekiel Elin)
Apple, TV+, Disney+, and Games (via Aaron Thomas)
Marco’s review of Ubiquiti Security Cameras
G5 Bullet
Switch Flex
Scrypted
SecuritySpy
#askatp:
How do we handle kid e-mail addresses? (via Greg)
What are our expectations for subscription apps? (via Michael)
How do we prevent losing access to our password managers? (via Denis Čapkovič)
Post-show:
Marco’s latest gift shipment to Casey
Marco’s latest gift shipment to John
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1h 60min
August 17, 2023548: Starting to Count Chickens
Pre-show: LG stand woes & Casey pronunciation woes
Follow-up:
Casey’s fire hazard has been returned
Text editors
Yes, we forgot about Nova. Our bad.
Zed (in beta)
vi
ls -l `which vi`
mg
README
/usr/bin/mg
nano
pico
Neat Safari-in-Sonoma trick
LLCs may not be the panacea we thought
Single-member LLCs can still be “real businesses”, says Ryan Roy
Single-member LLCs don’t necessarily protect the member, says Patrick Yan
FAQ from Denha & Associates PLLC
Blog post from Wolters Kluwer
Callsheet week one & subscription dynamics
Installer from David Pierce & The Verge
Apple-buys-Disney Rumors
The Hollywood Reporter
Jason
Upgrade #472: Step Aside, Bob!
King’s Dominion Backlot Stunt Coaster
(The poster in the hero image is not the one Casey was talking about)
Cabel Sasser: Fantasy Meets Reality
WWDC 2013 Intro Video
If everyone is busy making everything, how can anyone perfect anything?
There are a thousand no’s for every yes.
Aaron Thomas’ #askatp
Post-show: Let’s have a fireside chat about the state of ATP. (Nobody’s in trouble.)
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2h 24min
August 10, 2023547: Own Your Pricing
Pre-show:
⚠️ LAST CHANCE FOR HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ⚠️
Follow-up:
Mophie 3-in-1 travel charger
Reported issues
Firmware update kit
Casey’s fire hazard
John’s Photos issues
He knows about modifier keys, y’all.
MacPaint
MacDraw
Odd behavior with iPhone camera app
Jason Snell’s crop macro (.ZIP link)
Keyboard Maestro
Gui’s spelunking around face detection
defaults write com.apple.photoanalysisd PhotoAnalysisCoreDuetSchedulingDisabled -bool YES
Running XPC on-demand
XPC
In-app non-destructive photo editing (the below are App Store links)
Pixelmator Pro
Photomator
RAW Power
Darkroom
Lightroom
Lightroom Classic
#caseywasright
🎉 Callsheet has launched! 🎉
Press
Infinite Mac
Mini vMac
Analog(ue) #216: The Fast and the Curious
App Store Search Ads
First screenshot
#askatp:
Is it wise for indie developers to make a LLC? (via Nate Silva)
Massachusetts Fees
Massachusetts Fee Schedule
Could Apple go nuts with overclocking in a Mac Pro? (via Janne Ojaniemi)
What text editor are we using these days? (via Edward Corcoran)
TextMate
Blog post about slowness
Visual Studio Code
BBEdit
Alpha
Atom
Sublime Text
Espresso
Chocolat
Post-show: Roku TVs are gross
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2h 38min
July 31, 2023546: Re-Crop With the Wisdom of Age
Pre-show:
Marco’s Overcast rewrite
🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Follow-up:
Synology Dynamic DNS
Alex Mazanov (of SwiftBar fame)’s interesting idea
CNAME
Marco’s security camera update
Scrypted
Eufy
Cameras with HomeKit Secure Video support
John’s sailing channel
B&H is a Ubiquiti retailer
Some interesting research on memory and caching from Akshay Narayan
Their Paper
Google system using “far memory”
Paper on possible application performance gains
App Store to require developers to describe API use
Apple’s announcement
UserDefaults
Apple’s Note
Submit a request for a new approved reason
The Halting Problem
Steve Troughton-Smith
@AppStorage
John’s annual post-vacation tradition
FB12744158
Face recognition
When does Photos scan faces?
#askatp:
What are we dropping down to UIKit for? (from Aaron Bushnell)
What does John think of the α6700? (from David Campbell)
Why is my experience of social networks so different from what I hear you describe? (from Ben Gunsberger)
Post-show: [Some] weird things that Casey does
GL.iNet GL-MT1300
Quinn’s video
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2h 23min
July 27, 2023545: My Butler Can’t Use It
🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Pre-show: Marco mended something!
How-to video
The good replacement part
Which one of us is which?
Meet Your Hosts
Apple Vision Pro labs, developer kits, and more
MacVoices #1070: Marco’s first podcast appearance?
James Thomson
Steve Troughton-Smith
Casey’s phone call with App Review
Rumor that the quad chip is canceled
Upgrade #468: Nonstop Bangers Involving Saxophone Solos
Follow-up:
Large SSDs & Apple Silicon (via Matt Rigby)
Asmedia
Threads is already tanking? (Apple News link)
The Ubiquiti Dream Router is slow
…but the Dream Machine Special Edition is sold out
…and the Dream Wall is pretty cool, albeit ridiculous
Long-term review of the Logitech Circle View & HomeKit Secure Video
Correction: there are more HomeKit cameras
Post-show: Casey’s troubleshooting adventures
WireGuard
(Try PiVPN if you’re using a Raspberry Pi)
Tailscale
Dyn
No-IP
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2h 11min

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