524: The Anti-Fireplace Lobby

Pre-show: Please go decline your Tweetbot/Twitterrific refunds!

Follow-up:

John’s COVID project

mcg’s Experience with the Sony HT-A9

Larry King’s band’s Rivian Parody

“Not yellow” ≠ “no fun colors”

Adam Wunn on iMazing

Report on the Apple TV remote with touch disabled

Bad Apple TV news

Diabetes and blood glucose monitoring

Diabeetus

Sonos does allow you to shout requests into the air

Criminals are shoulder-surfing passcodes and then swiping iPhones

Mitigation ideas:

Alphanumeric passcodes

Settings → Face ID & Passcode → Change Passcode → Passcode Options → Custom Alphanumeric Code

Don’t use iCloud Keychain for banking passwords

Screen Time

Settings → Screen Time → Use Screen Time Passcode and don’t use the same passcode

Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions → Account Changes → Don’t Allow

Venmo: Me → Settings → Face ID & PIN → Enable Face ID & PIN

Cash: Icon in the upper-right → Privacy & Security → Security Lock

#askatp:

Is symmetric internet — particularly gigabit — worth it? (via Petar Petrović)

Casey’s original flex

Casey’s park bench picnic table

Casey downloads a Xcode beta

WRT54G

Do we use AlDente or Battery to manually limit charging

levels? (via MaxLaves)

Coconut Battery

Battery GitHub issue

Why doesn’t anyone make fun but not-creepy games? (via Brian Hamilton)

Post-show: Marco loses a war of YouTube attrition to Adam