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Mark and Richard talk about the September Apple event. Yes, this was recorded a month before release… We had a few non-technical difficulties… Also one technical difficulty. No, we did not storm Area 51, thanks for asking.

Show notes to be added someday.

Mark and Richard talk about Mark trying out the Oculus Quest, Richard’s MacBook Pro Repair Experience, Mark’s new P100D and Richard’s Cross Country U-Haul Trip.

Opening

• Friendly Dissonance Podcast

Trying Out the Oculus Quest

• Job Simulator

• Vader Immortal

• BeatSaber

• Will it Blend

• "You must unlearn what you have learned"

• Walking across a whole Minecraft map

Userspace Drivers in Catalina

• The sad state of the Nvidia Drivers

• Monolithic Kernel vs Microkernels

ThinkGeek going away

• The Story

• GameStop Pays Its Employees in Hidden Fee "Cash Cards"

Richard's Macbook Repair Experience

• All the people who want Apple to have a loaner computer program

• It’s time to switch your Mac backups from Time Capsule to Time Machine volumes

• Apple slashes prices on Mac storage upgrades

Mark Gets a P100D

• Tesla Offers Free Ludicrous Speed

• Tesla brings back Free Unlimited Supercharging again to sell inventory cars

• Tesla Brings Back Free Supercharging in Attempt to Boost Model S and Model X Sales

• Tesla updates pricing and options across lineup, discontinues several variants

• Center console Tesla includes by default

• Tesla Fart Mode

• Beach Buggy Racing 2

• Cuphead coming in v10

• Podcast Listener Roberto

• Supercharger v3 differences

• Osborne Effect (not Sinclair Effect)

• Tesla’s Dumb Connection Dock

• Model S Skyline Adapter

• 2019 Mercedes E-Series

• Electric Vehicle Warning Sounds

Richard Drives a U-Haul

• Desert Bus

Mark and Richard talk about Panic’s Playdate, Google Merging with Nest, 3d Touch with a lengthy aftershow talking about Star Trek, Game of Thrones and Westworld.

Followup

• Scroll - There are performance increases with scroll!

• Ads are bogging down the web

• Anki is going out of business 😟

• Doppler Labs - Here Ones (shuts down)

Panic's Playdate

• Firewatch, Coda, Transmit

• NO! NO GOD PLEASE NO! NOOOO!!!!

• Less space than a nomad, lame

• Information about the original game boy

• Untitled Goose Game

Google Merging with Nest

• Google’s Nest changes risk making the smart home a little dumber

• Thessa

• Nest does not have homekit support yet

• Homekit authentication in software

• if this then that

• Ecobee 4 and the new Ecobee Smart Thermostat

• Air conditioners and fan speeds

• Icomfort S30 - An expensive smart thermostat that works with Lennox units

• (We love you Kushal!)

Rumors about 3d touch going away

• iOS 13 is the beginning of the end of 3D Touch

• Everybody mispronounces the iPhone XS / XR

• How to enable right click on a mac

• The fundamental problem with Apple’s Touchbar

• Why to buy an iPhone XS over an XR

• The iMac hockey puck

Aftershow - Star Trek and Engineering

• Richard's Tweet that went semi-viral

• Star Trek 2 "by the book"

• IT Crowd - Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again?

• Is Netflix Cancelling Shows Before People Have a Reasonable Amount of Time to Watch Them?

• Why was TNG Season 1 so bad?

• RIP Firefly and Dollhouse

• Whedon and Agents of Shield

• 15 Great TV Shows That Had Really Terrible First Seasons

Aftershow - Game of Thrones Season 8 (SPOILERS)

• /r/freefolk

• Season 8 - Episode 3 and the Night King

• Foreshadowing is not character development

• Breaking Bad and Heisenberg vs Daenerys

• Red Wedding

• Shireen Baratheon

• Game of Thrones spinoff (Blood Moon)

• Game of Thrones S08E03: An Unbridled Rage

• Hardhome

• Yeet!

• Yoda offing the emperor's guard

• Hound Vs Brienne

• Bran Warging into Drogon

• Also Pointy

• Jon Snow Sucks: Failing Upward Through the Seven Kingdoms

• Theory on Littlefinger faking his own death

• WesterosWorld

• George R.R. Martin wanted a GoT / Westworld Crossover

• Discussion on which GoT characters are hosts and which are guests

Aftershow - Westworld Season 3 (SPOILERS)

• Westworld Season 3 Teaser

• Aaron Paul on Price is Right

• Weyoun 6 and Weyoun 7

• When Everyone’s Super… No one will be…

• Star Trek will bring anybody back to life

• Humans are only 10,247 lines of code

• HBO has plotted out at least five seasons for Westworld

Mark and Richard speak with Scroll CTO Kushal Dave. They talk about Scroll and the Macbook Pro refresh. Richard gives his initial impressions of the Oculus Quest.

Scroll

• Learn about Scroll

• Scroll Partners

• Scroll on Twitter (Hi Tony!)

• Scroll Blog

• 3rd party cookies

• Apple ITP

• Some Technical Information on Content Blockers on iOS

• Some information about Third Party Browsers on iOS

• TSA Pre ✓

• Ghostery

• Google Reader (RIP) as a social network

• Reeder

• What are OpenGraph Tags?

• Online ads can be targeted based on your emotions

• Advertising, uh… finds a way.

• Simplify

Podcast listening tracking:

• NPR’s RAD

• Apple and Podcast Analytics

• Target knows you’re pregnant

• Radiolab - Eye in the Sky (an episode discussing benefits vs privacy erosion)

Macbook Pro refresh

• Press release

• iFixit Teardown of new MacBook Pro

• Dust wasn’t the problem?

• Vega 20

• No, the video card wasn’t updated

• The MacBook Nerd

• XKCD Phone: One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | 2000

Mark buys a P100D

• Free Ludicrous Speed for Existing Tesla Customers

• Rumored Model S Interior Refresh

• Apple Tried to Buy Tesla

• You can buy a Tesla too! [Richard’s Affiliate Link | Mark’s Affiliate Link]

• Turo

Oculus Quest

• Buy a Quest

• Which Phones Can I use with a Quest?

• dO yOu GuYs NoT hAvE pHoNeS?

• Tech Specs

• IMU (Internal Measurement Unit)

• Some info on Inside-out Tracking

• Sideloading Apps on the Quest

• Bluetooth Headphones on the Quest [!]

• List of Games with Cross Buy

• Beat Saber

• Superhot

• Vader Immortal

• Robo Recall (Intro)

• Job Simulator

• Creed

• Journey of the Gods

Mark and Richard talk about the Apple Services event from March, Google Stadia, the Oculus Rift S and Oprah hate.

Apple Event

• No more Airpower

• Apple Services Keynote (with Intro Video)

• The Oatmeal tries to watch Game of Thrones

Apple News+

• More Information

• Some criticism on Apple News+

• Some criticism on Apple News+ on the WSJ (lol)

• How to Read all articles on WSJ via Apple News

• Wall Street Journal Reports on deal with itself

Naming

• NewsMax is already taken

• The iPad's Name Makes Some Women Cringe

Apple Card

• More Information

• Wirecutter on Apple Card

• TechCrunch on How Apple Card works

• Bank of America (MBNA) and ShopSafe

• Gas Pumps have a MagStripe compliance deadline of 2020

• Wirecutter on Best Credit Cards

Apple Arcade

• More Information on Apple Arcade

• The Apple Pippin

• An old essay on the problem with apps in the App Store

• Mac Games (Photoshop…)

Apple TV and Apple TV+

• A guide to the new functionality

• Link to Apple TV+

• South Park - “Netflix, you’re greenlit!”

• Logo Programming Online

• Apple TV+: Everything we know so far

• Apple TV+ is going to Smart TVs

Mark’s Rant on Oprah

• The Law of Attraction and criticism on it.

• What is Multi-Level Marketing and A Reddit Group dedicated to hating MLM

• Seeing Steve Jobs complete ignore The Secret on Amazon (Correction: Secret was #3, not #2)

• Dr. Oz is terrible

• Social Darwinism

Google Stadia

• Google Stadia Keynote

• Hands-on with Google Stadia Controller

• John Carmack on Google Stadia

Oculus Rift S

• Product Page

• Palmer Luckey on the Rift S

• Black Smearing with Rift?

• Oculus considering audio accessory for Rift S

• John Carmack streaming Beat Saber

• Carmack Axe Attack

Mark and Richard talk about the Model Y, Nintendo Instruction Manuals, Dwarf Fortress, Climbing and new iPads/iMacs.

Preshow

• Hue remembers status after power turned off

Product Over Time

• USB Otoscope

• Anki Vector

Nintendo Instruction Manuals

• Final Fantasy 1 for NES Manual

• Startropics Missing Clue

• Warcraft 1 Manual

• If Quake 1 was done today

• How Metroid Prime teaches gamers to play it

Dwarf Fortress Steam Release

• Game Link

• Nethack

• Goat Simulator with "millions of bugs"

• Civilization Gandhi bug

GDC and Climbing

• BeatSaber on Quest

• Vive Pro

• Free solo movie

• Alex Honnold - How I climbed a 3000 foot vertical cliff without ropes

Baba is You

• Game Link

New Apple iPads and iMacs

• iPad Press Release

• iPad Engadget Review

• Daring Fireball on iPad

• iMac Press Release

• 2019 iMac Review

• 6k Display

Model Y

• Model Y Information

• Elon Musk Fails Public Speaking

• BMW 3 Gran Turismo

Aftershow

• What is Gymkit

• A $9000 treadmill with GymKit

Mark and Richard talk about Tesla Updates, Alex Trebek, Hololens 2, USB 3.0 and more MacBook Pro hate.

Preshow

• Nocturnal people don’t live as long

• People without sleep more likely to get Alzheimer’s

Followup

• Huawei Foldable Phone

• Huawei Government Restrictions

• Huawei blatantly rips off other companies

• Corning and Foldable Glass

• Reading Rainbow Transition

• Alex Trebek is dying

• Pat Sajak and Vanna White only work 36 days a year

• Steve Jobs and his treatable Pancreatic Cancer

• Tesla decided to close locations and then leave them open.

• Tesla price cuts and then their price increases.

• Tesla and v3 supercharging

• Tesla Model S and X getting 2170 batteries at some point

• When Microsoft Tried to Require an Internet Connection for Xbox One

Macbook Hierarchy of Needs

• Link to Article

• The Rumored 16 inch MacBook Pro

• The old 17 inch Macbook Pro

HoloLens 2

• Announcement

• John Carmack shines laser in his eye

Nintendo Labo VR

• Nintendo Labo VR

• Nintendo Virtual Boy

• Rumored Switch Updates

• View-Master

USB 3.2 Standard

• USB 3.2 standard gets new, even more confusing names

• USB 4.0

Aftershow

• Trials Rising

• Ape Out (Nintendo Switch link)

• Diablo 1 on Good Old Games

• /r/patientgamers and /r/retrogaming

• A Fisherman’s Tale

Mark and Richard talk about Otoscopes, Folding Phones, Apple Credit Cards, Transitioning to ARM, and Doug Bowser. Featuring lots of Street Fighter 2 nostalgia in the aftershow.

Pre-show

• Return of ProgressQuest!

Followup

• Ludicrous speed update IS a software update

• What is a Confusopoly

• Walking away as a tactic

Product Over Time: Vector

• Product Link

Product Over Time: USB Otoscope

• USB Otoscope Richard bought

• Snakes with cameras

Folding Phones

• Galaxy Fold

• Samsung Store locations

• LG Rollable TV

• Rumor of Folding Microsoft Tablet

• Samsung Tri-Fold Tablet

Apple Credit Card

• Link

• States with digital id trial programs

• Storing your ID in apple wallet / app

Apple Transitions to ARM in 2020

• Story

• Intel still does paper launches!

• Nvidia RTX Ray Tracing Performance Hit

Book Over Time

• The History of the Future

• Masters of Doom

Nintendo's New CEO - Doug Bowser

• Doug Bowser Announcement

• What does Nintendo of America do?

• Nintendo Cereal

• Nintendo Power

Aftershow

• Donut County 100% Guide (Spoilers!)

• Jtails Smash Bros Videos

Aftershow - Street Fighter 2

• Golden Nugget - Balrog's Stage

• Street Fighter 2 AI

• Game Genie SNES cheats

• Capcom Arcade Fighter Stick

• Street Fighter 2 Music Comparison

  • Opening SNES vs CPS1

  • Ryu SNES vs CPS1

  • Ken SNES vs CPS1

  • E.Honda SNES vs CPS1

  • Chun-Li SNES vs CPS1

  • Blanka SNES vs CPS1

  • Zangief SNES vs CPS1

  • Guile SNES vs CPS1

  • Dhalsim SNES vs CPS1

Mark and Richard talk about VR, Tesla Pricing Changes, Tesla Servicing, the Facebook Enterprise Certificate debacle and the Six Colors Apple Report Card.

Followup: VR

• Listener Kazzie and her issues with VR and motion sickness

• Lone Echo

• MineCraft VR

• Beat Saber

• Budget Cuts VR

• Job Simulator

Tesla Pricing Changes

• Tesla launches new cheaper Model S and Model X with software-limited battery pack

• Ludicrous Speed IS a software unlock

• Elon Musk Memes

• Porsche GT2 vs GT3

Tesla Service

• KMFDM - Los Niños Del Parque

• Getting your Tesla services in Montana

• Issues with Tesla in Norway

• Tesla reveals new self-driving Autopilot hardware 3.0 computer diagram ahead of launch

• Porsche 800v chargers

• “A mere 350 kW ... what are you referring to, a children's toy?” - Elon Musk

• Electrify America

• Tesla CHAdeMO adapter

Facebook Enterprise Certificates

• Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS Apps

• Apple revokes Google’s Enterprise Certs

• Uber tried to fool Apple and got Caught

• Nielsen VPN

• South Park - HUMANCENTiPAD

Six Colors Apple Report Card

• Apple’s Letter Grades

• Gruber’s Comments

• Cherry Clear Keyboard Switches

Aftershow

• Talk about Smash Bros

• Fisherman’s Tale

Bonus: Mark got Sascha and Lucia from KMFDM to sign a CD for Richard on October 27th, 2003.

Mark and Richard talk about spam calls, Ubiquiti, Github and Unity support for SpatialOS.

Intro - Spam Calls

• Hiya Spam Blocker

• Google Call Screening AI

Ubiquiti Hardware

• UniFi Security Gateway (buy)

• UniFi AP AC Pro (buy)

• AC 60 Watt Switch (buy)

• Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Key (buy)

• Power over Ethernet

• Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

• Wireless Printers as a Wireless Access Point

• What is Zigbee

• Kevo Plus (buy)

• 2nd Generation Kevo (buy)

• Nest Doorbell

• Skybell HD (buy)

• Sleep Number 360 Bed

• Black Fax Prank

Github

• Github announced Free Repositories

• Google Apps for Domains Free Version

• XKCD - Is it worth the time

• XKCD - Automation

• Microsoft Switching to Chromium Rendering

Unity Discontinues Support for SpatialOS

• Cloud gaming firm: Unity must clarify its terms, reinstate our license

• Epic Games And Improbable Announce $25 Million Fund for Devs Hit by Unity Changes

• Tim Sweeney tweet on Unity EULA

Aftershow

• ProgressQuest

• Being the worst player at Smash Bros Ultimate (other people do this)

• Street Fighter 2 Car Bonus Level

• Smash Bros - How to Reduce Online Lag

• Kill the Dog from Duck Hunt

• Just Shapes and Beats Multiplayer