Accidental Tech Podcast

428: A Series of Rectangles

April 29, 2021 01:52:49 • Download (109 MB)

A lot of follow-up in a race against an antihistamine.

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Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
“Fully vaccinated”
Joanna Stern’s C-Fed Interview
- CEO question timestamp link
Spring 2021 Apple Event
- Apple TV
  - Calibration
  - Remote Design & Pricing
  - No Acceleromter nor Gyroscope
  - Apple TV pricing
    - Apple TV / iTV
  - High-frame-rate HDR compatibility?
  - AppleCare+ for Apple TV
- Extended AppleCare+ for Macs
- iMac
  - Power brick/cable
    - Upgrade #350: The Time for Color is Now
    - 143 watts
  - VESA mount
  - Why not put Ethernet on all Mac adapters?
  - Why have high-efficiency cores in a batteryLiss system?
- iPad
  - 12MP front-facing wide camera with Center Stage
    - Center Stage will have an API
  - iPad RAM amount is listed 😱
  - 12.9” iPad Pro and older Magic Keyboards
- AirTags: for tracking your luggage
- Apple Premium Podcasts
- John’s Eero & Smart Outlet update
- EV charging from Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings and Dave Nanian
  - DoE Map Search
  - Mobil Speedpass
#askatp
- What would it take to get you into this [phantom] Mac Pro, today, John? (via Brian Ashe)
- Do we use FileVault on our personal Macs? How come? (via Lingxiu Zhang)
  - System Preferences → Security & Privacy → FileVault
  - Mat Honan’s tale of woe
- What’s the longevity of the M1 look like? (via Johann Neubert)
Post-show: Marco’s arms are on fire

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427: The Apology Remote

April 22, 2021 02:37:04 • Download (151 MB)

It really was a loaded baked potato!

Pre-show: ⅓ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
Spring 2021 Apple Event
Post-show:

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426: Loaded Baked Potato

April 15, 2021 01:48:48 • Download (105 MB)

Home electrical work, dumb Wi-Fi networks for allegedly smart devices, and predictions for next week's Apple event.

Pre-show:
- [Hopefully not] Burning Down the House
- All of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
  - Thanks, Paul
Follow-up:
- Smart outlet update
  - Reconcilable Differences
  - For eero:
    Settings → Troubleshooting → My device won't connect → My device won't connect to my network → Temporarily pause 5 GHz
- Electrical resistive heating
  - Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
  - Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
- Casey has a CarPlay apostrophe epiphany
- Charging the i3
  - Go buy SuperDuper!
  - Types of EVs
Follow-out: Upgrade’s Discussion of TouchBar and HomePod
Apple event on 20 April
#askatp
- Single HomePod or dual HomePod Mini? What if there’s already a HomePod? (via Josh Errickson)
- What’s the point of BCC in email? (via Chuma Nnaji)
- How long until we see Apple using Armv9?
Post-show Neutral

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425: Hey Billionaire

April 8, 2021 02:30:17 • Download (145 MB)

Oracle v. Google, Tim Cook's interview, the next Apple CEO, and BMW vs. CarPlay.

Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
- Fork Hands
  - FU: Why two doses?
- Reverse Engineering the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
Follow-up:
- How is John replacing a router with a switch?
- Ubiquiti Flex Mini
- Handoff vs. AirPlay 2
- Zach’s point about WWDC announcement date
- Yep, Apple uses Webex
- Microsoft Teams
  - Perhaps it’s too many UDP packets?
- Heating your house via cryptomining?
  - Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
  - Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
- NSRunningApplication was added in Snow Leopard
- FB7603765 is fixed!! 🎉
- Tesla Model 3 Delivery Checklist
- Cryptocurrency 000 101
Supreme Court: Oracle vs. Google
- Ars Technica write-up
- MJ Tsai’s write-up
- Clean room
- GNUstep
- ApplicationKit
- Kotlin
- Arial
- New York
- Geneva
- San Francisco
- Swing
- POSIX
Tim Cook Interview with Kara Swisher
- Overcast link
- Dithering (see the 7 April episode)
- Upgrade #346: Float It Like a Hologram
- Outside Online Interview
- Tim Cook’s ∞ Timeline
- Apple Leadership
- oh no
Post-show Neutral: Marco’s injured Tesla
- BMW i3
- Neutral #4: If You See a Cursor, They Blew It

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424: Ethernet Squid

April 1, 2021 01:58:29 • Download (115 MB)

WWDC's announcement, WatchConnectivity, read-only Twitter apps, Ubiquiti's trouble, network-switch fashion, and the latest hot news about cryptocurrency.

Pre-show:
- Read-only Tweetbot
- WatchConnectivity
Follow-up:
- [More] Tesla wheels of shame
  - Belvedere, CA via Alistair Logie
- AirPods Max warranty repairs (via Harrison Krebs)
WWDC 2021 Announced
- NSRunningApplication Radar Numbers
  - 48190148
  - 25521354
  - 22088473
  - 18980463
  - 21253274
  - 18890642
New Siri Default Voices
- Sample Recording
- Another Sample Recording
Ubiquiti Breach
- An aside about cryptocurrency
- Air gap
- eero
- pfSense
  - Their recent “whoopsies”
John’s Networking Situation
#askatp
- Should one use a non-administrator user account? (via Michael)
- How do I mash together 400 video clips into one file? (via Duncan Wilcock)
  - ffmpeg
  - Casey’s primer on ffmpeg
  - In short:
    - Create a file that refers to all 400 file names. Call it, say, files.txt
    - Each line of that file reads file 1.mp4, file 2.mp4, etc. One file per line.
    - Maybe something like this? ffmpeg -f concat -i files.txt -vf scale=4096:2160 three-hour-movie.mp4
- How does Overcast scrape iTunes? (via Brandon Wees)
  - SOAP
Post-show:
- Bell follow-up

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