Accidental Tech Podcast

622: Duplicate Garbage Generation Process

January 14, 2025 02:24:02 • Download (139 MB)

New Mac-monitor possibilities, Tim Cook's political moves, and updates on John's app… which now has a name!

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)
- Dynamic Island Live Alert (via Dan Engler)
🤮 Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inaguration 🤮
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
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621: I'll Meet You Any Time You Want

January 9, 2025 02:12:21 • Download (128 MB)

Breaking news and in-depth coverage from our reporter at CES.

Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them
- 20k Hz
- statuslight.com
Follow-up:
- That gas car review post that Marco was thinking of
- 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
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

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620: Mostly Cookies

January 3, 2025 01:46:43 • Download (103 MB)

Apple's in-house radio chips, iOS 18 Photos-app reception, rumors of a new mouse (!), and a good cult to join.

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)
- 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
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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619: Master Plan to Take Over the World

December 26, 2024 02:12:41 • Download (128 MB)

Disk-cloning drama, recognizing obscene waveforms, Storacusa progress, and the plug-in-hybrid life.

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
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
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618: Type System Says No

December 19, 2024 02:16:58 • Download (133 MB)

A new toy Marco bought, a new toy Marco swears he won't buy, many names John won't use for his app, and a snack of sharks.

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
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
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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