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Follow-up:
VPNs and Supervised devices
Nickname preferences (via Julian Torres)
Skydio’s absolutely bananas talk on autonomous drone obstacle avoidance
The Talk Show #309: Pinkies on the Semicolon
More on Clubhouse
Chat room
Gui Rambo’s investigations 🧵
“Ephemeral” C...
419: This Week’s Gasp
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...
418: Dangerously Close to Being on a Phone Call
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 ...
417: Sand and Water Interface
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 Vosse...
416: I Will Take Away Those Kudos
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
M...
415: Sent Without Pants
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)
M...
414: Promoted Onto the Roof
Pre-show: John’s pecking order
Follow-up:
Curved screens to solve off-axis viewing (via Nathaniel Cohen)
AirPods Max headband removal
Quinn’s video
Blind men and an elephant
Waterfield Designs AirPods Max Case
Brighter whites
OxiClean
/System/Applications/Utiliti...
413: Suddenly I’m the Marco
Follow-up: Casey makes John reminisce about Atlanta[’s food]
Waffle House
Taco Bell
CocoaLove
Steak ‘n Shake
Denny’s
Perkins
Follow-up:
“Is it bigger than a breadbox?”
The Feedback app will automatically run a sysdiagnose
John’s bug (as mentioned on Twitter): FB871...
412: Love Batteries
Follow-up:
Accommodating hearing loss (via “Phredd Phlinstone”)
Settings → Accessibility → Audio/Visual → Headphone Accommodations → Audiogram
Example app from
Maciej
Big Sur Update
Apple guidance on SMC reset via Tom Bridge
How to do a SMC reset
Apple T2
Brid...
411: Are My Instructions Not Clear?
Follow-up:
Casey’s MMS problems and Apple’s bug-reporting black hole (FB8893003, FB8952395)
sysdiagnose
Settings → Privacy → Analytics & Improvements → Analytics Data
More on Fitness+
HDR photos
Settings → Photos → View Full HDR
Screen brightness
i...
410: The Comfort Is Killing Me
Pre-show: Living the M1 lifestyle
Follow-up:
AirPods Max
Battery situation (via Barney)
Snazzy Labs video
Smart Case ∆s
9to5mac
Apple Support
Turns out, like the Pro Display XDR, the LG UltraFine 5K does have a fan. (via Joseph Duffy)
Also, it has been revi...
409: Midrange Snob
Follow-up:
Group MMS issues persist, and Casey is over. it. (FB8893003)
AirPods Max and its competitors
Beoplay H95
Marco’s Closed Headphones Mega-Review
AirPods Max button and varying modes
Passive (powerLiss operation)
Marco’s Computing Situation
LG UltraFine 5K
...
408: Feature Headphones
Pre-show:
Casey’s great news!
Mix Pre3-ii
Call Recorder for Skype
Audio Hijack
IRC
Marco’s Slightly Unpopular Opinion
RealPlayer
Marco’s new “experience”
Follow-up:
Is Apple-Silicon-Ready?
brew and Rosetta
Duplicating Terminal.app
brew using arch
Chiple...
407: It Isn’t a Big Grapefruit
Pre-show: You heard it here first: Marco is really starting to justify a new Mac.
Follow-up:
You can restore stuff from iCloud here (via Ryan Fegley)
Accelerated TensorFlow for macOS probably just uses the GPU
Neural Engine can be used as well, though. (via @hishnash)
...
406: A Bomb on Your Home Screen
Follow-up:
Fast resolution switching on M1 Macs
Apple engineer weighs in
Demo video
What about external monitors?
Mac-optimized TensorFlow 2.4 fork makes things fly
M1 Mac 8K render test
Running iOS apps with IPAs
iOS App Store Package
CrossOver runs Windows ap...
405: The Benevolence of the Powerful
Pre-show: Why are we recording early?
Follow-up:
Casey’s watch band
youtube-dl is back on Github
Github works with ICE, which is gross and should stop
Feel free to tell Github this is gross
Github’s statement about youtube-dl
EFF’s counterargument to the RIAA’s ...
404: With Four Hands Tied Behind Its Back
Pre-show:
THE ATP STORE IS BACK, BABY. Until the 14th. Act now!
Remember that members get 15% off!
iPhone 12 Mini, Max press reviews are out
Gruber’s review
MKBHD’s review
Nilay’s tweet
Panzer on the OIS
Panzer on ISO range
Halide
Casey had an oops
Apple Event
...
403: A VCR for the Internet
The ATP Store is back until 14 November!
Follow-up:
Casey is aware of the National Radio Quiet Zone
Verizon map
AT&T map
Apple leather case covers the bottom, which chaps John’s bottom
Moving 2-Factor Authentication to new phones
Google Authenticator’s changes ...
402: Flat-Side Promoter
Pre-show:
Please, please, please vote.
The ATP Store returns on 1 November until 14 November… in theory.
Follow-up:
Peter Pan: Arms akimbo
5G upload speeds
Verizon’s 5G lead
Photos-related updates
Apple Photos file management options
Image Capture can import HEIC...
401: Sandwich-Closing Force
Pre-show:
Dreaming in code
Grand refactorings
HomePod, HomePod Mini, and Sonos One (oh my!)
Follow-up:
Apple’s Magnetic Connectors Patent
Accessory Design Guidelines for Apple Devices (PDF) (via Michael Bettiol)
Periscope lenses don’t have moving elements (via Tim...
400: Reach Is the Next Frontier
Apple Event overview
Have you heard the good word about Verizon’s 5G?
MVNO
HomePod Mini
Apple S5
Echo Dot ($50)
Echo ($100)
Echo Studio ($150)
No, but really. Have you heard the good word about Verizon’s 5G?
MMX
iPhone 12 and 12 Mini
Steve Troughton-Smith o...
399: Off the Pouch Lifestyle
Pre-show: Marco’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.
Follow-up:
Facebook vs. Apple
Apple is not taking the 30% cut after all
Merchants have been allowed to add surcharges for credit card transactions since January 2013 (via Jordan Ryan Moore)
Adam’s watch b...
398: The State of Your Baby
Thank you for all your donations to St. Jude! 💙
Pre-show: Desk Reconstruction Day
Uplift Desk V2 C-frame with magnetic cable channel and mountable surge strip
Follow-up:
John’s Headphone Update
Correct pad replacements EDT 1770D
Sony’s digital vs. plastic-disc p...
397: We Can’t Wait To See What You Do To It
Please join ATP in donating to St. Jude
Podcastathon 2020 Video
Casey’s appearance
Siracusa’s appearance
Pre-show:
Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro, 250Ω
Light color temperatures
LED corn bulb
The Stalman Podcast #95: Time Flies Apple Event
Video
Casey’s electri...
396: The World of Moving
Please join ATP in donating to St. Jude
Pre-show:
Sleepy Shirts
Headphone cups
Sony MDR-7506
John’s new pads
Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro, 250-ohm
Beyerdynamic EDT 1770D pads
Follow-up:
PlayStation 5 pricing and availability
PlayStation 5 sizes
Apple Event: Time ...
395: Receive Their Honking
Please join ATP in donating to St. Jude
Pre-show:
A heartfelt “thank you” from Casey
Sand running
Sorry, California
Follow-up:
GUI method for deleting APFS snapshots
Boot Camp Assistant
tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Carbon Copy Cloner
Xbox Elite Series 2 trigger...
394: The Price of an ATP Sticker
Please join us in donating to St. Jude
Follow-up:
John’s Mac Pro
Reviving a data-only volume
bridgeOS updates
Other Mac Pro Woes
John Sandilands
Paul Colton
Job
Non-Mac-Pro Woes
Hagen Terschüren
Leeward
Roland Månsson on Mac hardware tests
⌥D and then ⌘E
...
393: We’re the Bit Company
Black. Lives. Matter.
Follow-up:
Bump starts and heel/toe
Design resources for developers
/r/UI_Design
Refactoring UI
Fortnite/Epic
“Seasons”, and Chapter 2 Season 4
Tim Sweeney’s tweet
Cross-play won’t work anymore (via The Verge)
Corporate Relationship Manage...
392: Corporate Relationship Counselor
Pre-show: Marco spends Casey’s money
Marco’s headphones
Marco’s flashlight
Video review by “SensiblePrepper”
Follow-up:
John’s 🦗s
Apple’s fall-event-dates rumor is already wrong
Correction about Siracusa’s “Aristotle” quote (Twitter thread)
Apology 30b 2-4 inter...
391: Worse in Stupid Ways
Follow-up:
Tim Cook does play both sides of the campaign-donation game
Big Sur Beta 4 tweaks
“Wallpaper Tinting in Windows”
Energy Saver Slider
Single-shot Disabling Live Photos (via James Cocker)
Preparing Your App to be the Default Browser or Email Client
Phil ...