Accidental Tech Podcast

563: Drain the Attic

November 28, 2023 02:28:35 • Download (143 MB)

Chip-packaging advances, modern ECC, iPhones adopting RCS, satellite-SOS pricing options, Thunderbolt 5, the joy of moving, and our fitness journeys.

Pre-show: Moving is not fun.
- Marie Kondo
Follow-up:
- Apple fixes worn keycaps (via Ezekiel Elin)
- OpenAI
  - Sam Altman Reinstated
  - Five Days of Chaos
- Tip for buying smart thermostats (via Neil Weinstock)
  - Dominion Energy’s offerings
- Marco’s many-taps Ecobee
- Chip packaging
  - Introductory videos on packaging
    - Brief History of Semiconductor Packaging
    - Stacking Dies for Performance & Profit
- ECC RAM in Apple Silicon (via Grady Borders & Joe Lion)
Green bubbles get slightly less 🤢?
- RCS
- Yes, still green bubbles
- SMS & MMS & iMessage
Apple extends free 🛰️ emergency services
- Garmin inReach
Thunderbolt 5
- C2C caberQU
#askatp:
- Can John take us on a tour of his recommended TVs? (via Gary Owen)
  - Sony A95L
  - LG G3
    - HDTVTest review
    - 65” at Amazon
  - RTings.com OLED burn-in tests
    - 20 November 2023
    - 5 October 2023
  - Sony X95L
  - Sony X90L
  - Digital Trends best TVs of 2023
- Have we ever had iCloud randomly revert a file? (via Stephen Towler)
- Which apps should be blocked from refreshing in the background? (via Marcos Vinícius Petri)
Post-show: Moving is fun.

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562: Do You Have a Dragon?

November 21, 2023 02:23:15 • Download (138 MB)

OpenAI's turmoil, M3 Max thermals, keyboard wear, and the Humane Ai Pin.

Pre-show:
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Follow-up:
- Keyboard wear
  - Finger grease (via Ryan Holmes)
    - ABS plastic
    - PBT plastic
  - A true horror show (via Andrew)
- MacBook Pro thermal tests
- More about chip packaging
  - Johny Srouji interview from July 2023
    - Timestamp link to clip cited
  - Stratechery with Pat Gelsinger
  - Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express
- ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED just will not die
  - Stack Overflow question
  - Tailscale’s patch (via Gil Pedersen)
  - Anonymous info
  - SpaceX’s extremely dubious technical choices
OpenAI
- The Verge headlines/coverage
- Net promoter score
#askatp:
- What ever happened to ECC RAM, now that Apple Silicon is here? (via Tim Schmitz)
- How do we photograph kid art (via Chris Gleim)
  - Procreate
- Does tech actually improve our lives? (via Jamie West)
  - Automators #140: LimitLiss Automations with Casey
Post-show: Humane ai pin
- Product launch video
- TED Talk

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561: Market Your Bug

November 16, 2023 02:15:51 • Download (132 MB)

Our initial M3 Max MacBook Pro impressions, details on M3-family SSD performance, more enthralling content about body oils, and Marco's self-created need to go to a hardware store.

Show Administrivia:
- 🗣️ THE ATP HOLIDAY STORE IS HERE 🗣️
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- 🗣️ NEW MEMBER’S SPECIAL! 🗣️
  - ATP Dev: Other People’s Code
Follow-up:
- Face ID is also an accessbility affordance (via Todd Scheresky)
- Uses for 🛢️👃🏻 (via Jamie West)
- Microwaves
  - The modern knob (via Nate)
  - There’s such a thing as too much (via Kieth Bradnam)
- Scanning old photos
  - Ryan’s procedure
  - Todd Vaziri’s advice
    - ScanCafe
- Possible laptop improvments (via Nathaniel Velez)
- Apple explains dynamic caching (via Gokhan Avkarogullari)
  - Metal Profiling Tools
  - Performance Best Practices for Shaders
  - Memory is now unified within the GPU (via Jonathan Ragan-Kelley)
- M3 SSD speed vs. M3 Pro SSD speed
- SSD price graph (via CG)
- Mac laptops have had the same base RAM since 2017 (via David Schaub)
  - Jobs vs. Cook
Marco and Casey’s new laptops
#askatp:
- What is a “neural engine”? (via Richard Levitt)
- How often should bugs on beta OSes be reported? (via Mike Hoffman)
  - ATP #324: Automatic Kicking Machine
- Is there a way to get Photos.app’s geotag metadata into the actual files? (via Santiago)
Post-show: Marco’s hardware adventure
- Nest Thermostat
- Ecobee Thermostat

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ATP Dev: Other People’s Code

November 15, 2023

John's experience working on the ATP CMS… by writing PHP, a language nobody ever truly learns.

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560: They're All Rectangles

November 9, 2023 02:17:42 • Download (133 MB)

iPhones as pro video cameras, the politics of base configurations, and the knob-microwave lifestyle.

Pre-show: Marco has discovered knobbed microwaves
- John’s toaster journey
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Follow-up:
- Apple Event was “shot on iPhone”
- David Steer in defense of the M3-plain MacBook Pro
  - Luke Miani’s video
- Base configs make a difference, according to Ewan Makepeace
- Still no Face ID (via Tomer Shemesh)?
- 8 GB RAM has been the MacBook Pro baseline since 2014
- Dynamic Caching (via Nitesh Singh)
- The small-capacity SSDs are better now?
  - Luke Miani
- Apple Silicon packaging and a potential M3 Ultra
  - F Häusler’s updated diagram
- AnandTech confirms odd memory quantities (via Cameron McKay)
- More thoughts from Jonathan Dietz, Jr
- A new ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED error report has entered the chat
MacBook Pro order updates
#askatp:
- How do we manage our physical photos? (via Steven)
- Why should we care about hardware AV1 decoding? (via Jack Johnson)
- How do we convince our loved ones to upgrade hardware? (via Christian Heile)
Post-show: Humane’s AI pin leaks

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