Accidental Tech Podcast

616: I Have No Grippers

December 6, 2024 02:09:33 • Download (125 MB)

Third-party Mac SSDs, using Threads and Bluesky, Intel's CEO-firing, and what features we'd add to our apps without the fear of rejection.

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] (https://cleanupbuddy-app/)
- 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?
Threads tests allowing users to choose their own default feed
- Ivory
- Reeder
- Tapestry
- Zuck’s post
Pat Gelginer 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:
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- Tips from FotS Tyler Stalman
- Cropping isn’t always necessary (via Nicholas Gaffney)
- Psychology of photography (via Matt Johnson)

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615: A Mildly Brisk Walk

November 26, 2024 02:04:58 • Download (120 MB)

Casey's adventures in sports piracy, John's loss of apes, and Marco's visions of pores.

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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614: Don't Puke for the Show

November 22, 2024 01:57:22 • Download (113 MB)

A new spatial video, iPhone security, why Apple doesn't compete with NVIDIA's highest-end GPUs, and anything else to avoid having to do more in-app-purchase testing.

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- Kiki’s Delivery Service
Follow-up:
- The Weeknd: Open Hearts
- 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
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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613: Dress for the Chip You Want

November 14, 2024 01:59:37 • Download (116 MB)

More details on the M4 and Mac Mini, and the rumored Apple… WallPod? HomeScreen? Intellivision. There we go. No potential naming issues at all.

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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
  - 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)
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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