The Rewind Pendant, alcantara in new places, using AirPods Pro at a concert, why schools love Chromebooks, and a thousand-year optical-disc journey.

• Follow-up:
  • Overall St. Jude winner: James Neal
  • John’s window bug
    • Polling rate does make a difference
      • Source video
    • Polling rate to window quantity experiment
      • Source video
  • Macs vs. Chromebooks in education (via John Weston & Steve Ligett)
    • Upgrade #480: Never Do a Deal with the Preference Daemon
    • Jason on Apple’s ∞ Permissions Dialogs
  • John gets his Photos.app wish
  • Off-center holes aren’t new
  • Alcantara iPhone cases
    • Alma
  • Casey’s ★★★★☆ iPhone case
  • In defense of the utterly ridiculous Razer phone coolers (via Adam)
    • Peltier effect
  • Revisiting tire pressure management systems (via Mattias Lindblad)
• Casey’s adventures with stop-charging-at-80%
• AirPods Pro 2 as concert earplugs
  • Soundbrenner Minuendo
    • Others tried: Eargasm, Etymotic ER20XS, Earpeace, Vibes, Mumba
  • CodaRoom Custom High-Fidelity Earplugs
• Rewind.ai Pendant
  • We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
• #askatp:
  • What makes Apple’s designs so much better? (via Buckaroo Ponzi)
    • P.A. Semi
    • Nuvia Acquisition
  • Do we segregate our user data? (via Alfred Flynn)
  • How can an iPad-first user back up their photos? (via Joseph Zoller)
• Post-show: An optical-disc journey
  • Drive
  • Discs
  • Power Photos

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