Accidental Tech Podcast

667: Wisdom and Treachery

November 25, 2025 01:55:29 • Download (111 MB)

Egg! Egg! Egg!

Pre-show: Marco bought a new toy
- ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
- Bryan’s toot
Follow-up:
- macOS Tahoe 26.2 β3 seems to fix Electon slowdown (per shamelectron)
- Gurman says “not so fast, my friend”
- Gaming in ARM
  - Anti-cheat complications (via Tyler)
  - Windows 11 on ARM (via David Gaw)
- OpenAI Egg update
  - Interview video
  - Fred T
- Apple N1 > Broadcom
- An iPhone camera cluster theory
- The UK is still trying to make fetch happen get themselves a back door
  - Financial Times
Apple Fitness+ is “Under Review”
Fast charging & battery health
- Juli Clover summary @ MacRumors
Ask ATP:
- Now that Marco owns a restaurant, does he tip differently? (via Max Velasco Knott)
- What do we think about third-party packages? (via Eric Jacobsen)
- Is organizing /Applications a poor choice? (via Nathan)
- Are our kids better than we are at video games yet? (via Omri Arbiv)
Post-show: The saga of Overcast episode images
Members-only ATP Overtime: Should we ever be forced to put away our phones? (via Philip McDermott)

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666: We Have Nothing That Hot

November 20, 2025 01:41:53 • Download (99 MB)

The rumored end of the Mac Pro, the rumored end of Tim Cook's CEO tenure, and the resurrection of matte screens.

🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
- ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It — 16 October 2023
Follow-up:
- The origin of “diamond dogs” (via Jared Counts)
  - Wikipedia
- Matte, glossy, glass, and nanotexture (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
  - Paperlike
  - Rock Paper Pencil
- Steam Machine
  - EuroGamer article about APU/GPU (via DavidShaub)
- PlayStation 5 OS is FreeBSD-based (via Jesús Santaigo Narváez)
  - Wikipedia
  - PS Dev Wiki
- Steam Frame
  - Lenses (via Michael)
  - Spec chart (via James O’Loughlin)
  - Top strap image
  - Steam → Apple Vision Pro using ALVR (via Iain Wallace)
    - Guide on Reddit
- SteamOS
  - Is not universally supported (via DavidSchaub)
  - Alternatives (via solmnmagus)
    - Bazzite
    - CachyOS
  - Anti-cheat considerations (via Julian Torres)
  - Screw it, I’m installing Linux
- Steam strategy
  - Is Steam-on-ARM popular?
    - Hardware survey (via Lars Boris)
      - Additional thoughts from Ava
  - Steam has only one person to answer to (via charlesesmith)
- Single thread performance ranking (via Steven Op de beeck)
- “High-Res Antiglare” (via Adam Wunn)
John mourns the recent news
- GPU issues (via Colin Cornaby)
- GeekBench Metal scores
  - Mac Pro (2019) + AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
  - Mac Studio (2025) + M3 Ultra
- The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
Tim Cook to step down as early as next year
- Tim Cook & Kara Swisher in 2021 (starts at 35:51)
  - As discussed in ATP #425: Hey Billionaire
- Financial Times, 14 November 2025
- Gruber’s take
- Joe Rossignol @ Mac Rumors
  - Apple Corporate Governance Guidelines
Post-show: Declan discovers “HyperCard”
- Rage-baiting
Members-only ATP Overtime: The App Store on the web
- Dan Moren @ Six Colors
- MJ Tsai
- Apple shipped its source maps
  - Svelte
- See also: Apple Maps on the web
  - Announcement
- See also: Apple Podcasts on the web
  - Juli Clover @ MacRumors

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ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II

November 15, 2025

Marco seeks input about a dilemma, weighing the pros and cons of tackling a new project.

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665: My Basement Is Beautiful

November 13, 2025 02:00:27 • Download (117 MB)

Apple's new phone… holder, Steam's new hardware, and slightly more evidence that CD-Rs are S-tier.

Follow-up:
- John has some new Vision Pro treats
  - Flight Ready
- In the defense of the CD-R (via Jonathan Goforth)
  - ATP Tier List: Storage Media
- Auto-generated chapters in Apple podcasts
  - We’re dummies: ATP has a [chapter-free] bootleg
  - Some more technical details (via Stephen Robles)
    - Subscriber audio chapters are a mess
- New MacBook Pro design is for M6 Pro & Max only?
  - Mark Gurman’s coverage
  - MD101
- Tahoe & Electron app fixes
  - Discord is fixed (via Dayton Lowell)
  - Microsoft Teams Classic is likely to never get fixed (via Adam Wunn)
- macOS Emoji Picker
  - ⌃ ⌘ Space
  - Rocket
- Pogo-stick robot
  - Boston Dynamics
- A butt-dialing theory from Trey Carpenter
iPhone Pocket
- Paul’s analogy
- Gruber’s post
iPod Socks
- On eBay
New Steam Hardware
- Initial coverage
- Steam Controller
  - TMR not Hall Effect
  - Understanding the difference
- Steam Machine
  - Images on The Verge
- Steam Frame
  - More photos
Post-show: Marco goes to Home Depot
Members-only ATP Overtime: Affinity graphics apps go free, and some people are upset
- Press release

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664: Humanity Gets in the Way

November 6, 2025 02:02:25 • Download (118 MB)

AI podcast-chapter generators were never designed to handle us.

Pre-show: Casey dropped his 17 Pro
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- T568A & T568B
  - Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
- Don’t Stop Believin’…
An aside about podcast chapters and Apple’s recent news
Follow-up:
- The current MacBook Pro design is from the M1 (via Ben Mattison)
- More dashed Mac Pro dreams
  - Apple’s internal chip codename nomenclature
  - Variants
    - P = A_
    - G = A_X / A_Z / M_
    - S = M_ Pro
    - C = M_ Max
    - D = M_ Ultra
    - X = M_ Pro/Max/Ultra
  - Examples
    - A11 = H10P
    - A12X = H11G
    - A14 = H13P
    - M1 = H13G
    - M2 Pro = H14S
  - GPUs use G instead of H
  - More island/chip names from 26.1 RC:
    - Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versions/A/Headers/arm/cpuid.h
    - Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/mach/machine.h
    - Apple codenames
- John’s tale of Xcode 26.1 woe
- John’s un-fixed Electron apps
- More clipboard history options in macOS 26.1
- M5 MacBook Pro speed tests
  - MaxTech
Casey has tried the new Developer Strap
- Accessibility → Audio & Visual → Balance
An aside about nanotexture displays
- Marco’s current iPad paper-texture overlay
Casey upgraded to Tahoe
- Funky sidebar icon
/r/overcast
- Under the Radar #330: Engaging with Reddit
- Meltdown in the ProCreate subreddit over a painting of Master Chief
Post-show: Marco plays with 3D printing
- Tinkercad
- Bambu
- Eric Welander’s video about Gridfinity
- Toybox
Members-only ATP Overtime: Joanna Stern tries Neo, the household “robot”
- WSJ Article (or On Apple News+)
- QWOP

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