John tried Clubhouse.

• Pre-show diversions:
  • Posting the bootleg
  • Casey’s [hopefully useLiss] worries
  • Marco’s ball situation
    • Sonos Move
  • Casey’s Compulsory Icebreaker
    • Requisite link
• Follow-up:
  • Jef e’s doubts about SMART tools
  • Contacts API updates
    • Better Trust Through Better Privacy
    • Autofill Everywhere
  • Google’s astrophotography mode
  • Magnets and MagSafe (via Ante Söderholm)
  • More on Supervised iPhones (via Marc Wickens)
    • Support document
  • More on Clubhouse
    • Upgrade #340: Secret Sauce
    • Hacking with Swift
    • Steve Jobs Stories
    • Burner
• Memory safe iBoot implementation
  • Rust
• MacBook Pro models with HDMI and SD card readers?
  • Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
  • XJACK
• #askatp
  • Is it safe to use a High Sierra machine after security updates cease? (via John Hovland)
  • How do we store our parents’ names in our phone’s contacts? (via Colin Meney)
  • How do I clean up my Dock? (via Harjas Monga)
    • Desk accessories
    • Sudden Termination
    • Automatic Termination
• Post-show: Some more kvetching about app-quitting strategies

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Clubhouse, the Contacts API, iPhone 13 rumors, and somebody's new drone.

• Pre-show: Join us in our Clubhouse! (That’s a joke; not happening. —Ed.)
  • Chatroulette
  • Party line
  • Newton’s cradle
  • Should Apple remove the Contacts framework?
• Follow-up:
  • Living outside the east coast… or America.
    • The UK explained
  • The Concert for Charlottesville was posted
  • Should timers sync? (via Richard Harris)
  • What can Mobile Device Management really do? (via Chris Harper)
    • Support article
    • Helpful PDF
  • An alternate way to think about RAM vs. SSD-wear tradeoffs (via Jonathan Dietz)
    • Example M1 smartctl results
      • dd
      • fs_usage
  • Ada and MISRA C for car-computer safety
  • T568A vs. T568B myths revisited (via Jon B.)
    • Stack overflow theories
• iPhone 13 rumors
  • Live Tiles
  • Marco’s microsuction mounting tape
• Post-show: Casey’s new toy
  • Several-year-old Mavic footage
  • Marco’s old toy

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Beaches, California, resolved Apple drama, SSD wear, Docker, Tesla, Siri's music-service setting, timers on the Apple Watch, the AR rumor, corporate device management, prized personal media files, app-keyword spam, and puppy training. (Is that all?)

• Pre-show:
  • RIP, Call Recorder
  • On re-installing or transferring macOS
    • Launch Control
    • launchd
    • Pixelmator Pro
  • If we had to leave the eastern seaboard, where would we move?
• Follow-up:
  • DTKs are worth more now!
  • iOS 14.5 Watch unlock
  • Trying to ls ~/.Trash (via Mike Vosseller)
  • SSD traffic
    • Two month old SSD
    • smartmontools
    • smartctl --all /dev/disk0
    • Casey’s computations
      • Casey’s data
      • John’s data
  • Marco accidentally invents Docker
    • Docker on M1 Macs
    • VMWare Fusion on M1 Macs
  • Tesla recall 135,000 vehicles for touchscreen failures
    • 737 MAX
    • ATP #165: Time Was… (Overcast timestamp link)
    • Ada Programming Language
  • Mid-reboot turn signals in the Model 3 (via Michael Swindler)
• iOS 14.5 beta lets you specify Spotify/others as Siri’s default music service
  • INPlayMediaIntent
  • INMediaItemType
• Marco rants about timers on the Apple Watch
• Dan Riccio’s new project
  • microLED
  • Intel’s USB commercial
• #askatp
  • Do we let our personal lives bleed onto corporate devices? (via Jordan Cosentino)
  • What are our favorite or most obscure media files? (via Doc Davis)
    • A Concert for Charlottesville
    • Vertical Horizon
    • Crash Test Dummies
    • Family Force 5’s Christmas Pageant
    • Achtung Baby
  • Is it rude to put another app’s name in your own app’s search keywords?
    • Under the Radar #210: Thinking Like a Business
    • SwitchGlass
    • Front and Center
• Post-show: Pupdate
  • Kikopup

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Tech nostalgia, Apple developer drama, a special bug report, pro cameras, Tesla, Siri, filesystems, backups, and e-bikes: a typical ATP episode.

• Pre-show: Strong corporate affinities
  • Neutral #12: Vomit Ruins Everything — Marco & Casey’s BMW European Delivery experience
  • Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now — Marco, Casey, and Underscore’s BMW Driving School experience
• Follow-up:
  • Tesla
    • Model S/X round steering wheel
    • Touch controlls are force-touch?
    • Elon says “no more stalks”
    • NHTSA
  • Limiting Siri’s Messages Announcements
  • Telling Siri to 🤫
  • Developer Transition Kit returns
  • iOS 14.5 Beta adds support for unlocking iPhone with Apple Watch while wearing a face mask
    • Gruber’s take
  • Apple replies to one of John’s old Radars
    • TN1150
• Sony ɑ1
  • Canon EOS-1D X
• #askatp
  • Do we use CleanMyMac X/OnyX/etc? (via Donald Rabideau)
    • DaisyDisk
    • Space Gremlin
    • Grand Perspective
  • Does a small amount of RAM limit SSD lifespan? (via Dan Blondell)
  • How do simultaneous writes to a SSD work? (via Jan Philipp)
  • Would Apple ever offer iCloud Backup for macOS? (via Aidan Trager)
    • Backblaze
• Post-show: Marco is snowed in
  • Point O’ Woods
  • Lonelyville
  • Rize Blade
  • Sondors

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• Follow-up:
  • Marco’s new computer (This is not a joke. —Ed)
  • T568A vs. T568B myths busted
  • Reminiscing about the PowerBook G4’s ethernet port (via Travis Pouarz)
  • The 30” Apple Cinema Display and print design (via Ted Barnes)
  • Audio accommodations (via Christpher Klein)
    • Mimi (App Store link)
• Dan Riccio goes into a bunker
  • Creative Selection
• More Mac laptop rumors
  • Bloomberg
  • Patently Apple
• #askatp
  • How much do macOS and iOS cost? (via Brenden Becherer)
  • Do we care about the Sent with Siri footnotes in Messages? (via Rohit Sharma)
• Post-show: What is Tesla doing‽
  • John’s door handle
  • New Tesla Front
  • New Tesla Rear
  • Knight Industries Two Thousand
    • “Steering Wheel”
  • F1 Steering Wheels
  • Tesla Steering Yoke Close-Up
    • …with icons illuminated

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