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360: Big Hole in the Middle

02:16:19
Intro: Casey was not consulted CGP Grey Follow-up: Boot camp on external drives WinToUSB Rufus (via Alexei) Was the boot restriction issue the one from the start? (via Brad) Dual-booting with Bluetooth (via Robert Watkins) 2019 Mac Pro speaker module cable Removing the...

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359: I Could Live in There

02:13:39
John's Computer Situation State of Catalina Audiophiles are bananas Monoprice equivalent Follow-up: MagSafe connectors John's Mac Pro setup experience Storage/RAM effects Cable-free internals Time Machine Boot Camp ideas—none of which work as described 1, 2, 3, 4 Don't ...

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358: Emotional-Support Mac Pro

01:59:35
John's Computer Situation Reconcilable Differences #120: Where the Packages Sleep Mac Pro tidbits and follow-up: Mac Pro feet are removable 580X has two HDMI ports on the back 3dfx Voodoo Sound Blaster Blackmagic eGPUs and Pro Display XDR Teardown Thunderbolt 3 Add-in ...

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357: A Giant Green Field

02:23:49
Pre-show: John continues preparing the way Mice Logitech MX Revolution Follow-up: Thank you, listeners! Casey iMac !Pro offers Casey's Catalina Conundrum Marco's lamp update (thanks, Dan Engler!) First-generation Apple products Casey's iMac Pro tweet Downgrades from t...

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356: With a Heavy Heart

02:00:10

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355: The Way Corn Grows

01:51:05
Pre-show: Marco's artificial ☀️ Casey's garage light Dyson sphere Xledia bulbs (thanks, Marina Epelman) Seasonal affective disorder Casey's Computer Corner Conclusion Casey's busted Mojave installer due to an expired certificate? Apple Trade-In Evaluator Marco travels ...

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354: Casey’s Computer Corner

02:08:25
Pre-show: BBEdit to the rescue Casey's Computer Corner Apple Holiday Return Policy Casey's theoretical monitor NUC Marco's Office Lighting Follow-out IKEA !lamp John's lamp MS Office and Catalina Follow-up: Amazon's customer support "phone tree" Hopscotch GetHuman #a...

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353: Modern-Day Dialup

02:09:03
Neutral: The inevitable death of the stick Casey's Bumper Paperlike 2 (note: order from Kickstarter to get Paperlike 2; their website is currently only selling the first-gen) 16-inch MacBook Pro follow-up: Pricing What did Marco buy? Phil Schiller on a 14" MacBook Pro ...

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352: No One Else Had Calipers

01:36:27

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351: The Floor Is High

01:48:22
Pre-show: 🐛💇🏻‍♂️ ATP HOLIDAY SHIRTS available until Sunday, November 17 Marco's AirPods Pro Review Follow-up: AirPods Pro use a button-cell battery AirPods Pro charging light AirPods Pro case-jiggle click "Hey Siri, Be Quiet" FDA clears way for over-the-counter hearing...

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350: Wax Buddies

01:48:54

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349: Formative Tech Dystopia

01:50:27
Pre-show: Star Wars Episode X.10.1 Follow-up: Pi-hole Workflow/Shortcut SwiftUI app Microsoft progress-indicator graph Swift's New Diagnostic Architecture Overview No Overview Available Methodology Folklore.org No October event? Image of 16" MBP in 10.15.1 beta? A...

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348: Panic Shutdown

01:55:51
Pre-show: El Camino Jesse Pinkman's character bio Follow-up: Opting out of TiVo pre-roll ads Oxo Chef's Knife Siri opt-in & grading Optimus Player Casey's Docker adventures Pi-Hole Inspiration Jeff Atwood's article Homebridge Marco's networking adventures Ubiq...

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347: Not Enough Carrot to Take the Stick

02:03:07
Pre-show: Casey's computer and 👽 Follow-up: Where is FaceTime attention correction? "Coming this Spring" October expectations Noise-canceling AirPods Disposable AirPods "Battery service" 99% Invisible: National Sword Catalina Homebrew Bundle Go64 An aside about Ap...

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346: Go Back and Pop Myself

01:55:38

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345: Unapologetically Digital

01:51:21

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344: Peace in the Battery Kingdom

01:50:23
Donate to St. Jude Running campaign total Follow-up: Bank of America and ShopSafe Gruber's theory on Apple presenter names Midnight Green: Not a China thing SixColors on the U1 and UWB chips More iPhone 11 details iPhone thickness over time Alleged specs Note: 6GB ha...

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343: The Stand Is Your Hand

02:31:27

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342: The Opposite of Con

01:58:17

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341: John Is My Default

01:49:31
Pre-show: Marco ran out of dog food at the beach He is well-aware that his temporary food is not perfect and has not been reviewed by a vet or dog nutritionist, and will resume using "real" dog food when he gets home in 3 days Marco's breakfast story-highlight on Instagram ...

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340: You Are a Computer Athlete

02:02:24
Follow-up: Store-brand Velveeta WalMart store brand Kroger store brand KeyboardCleanTool PlayStation 5 hardware Xbox One S Xbox One X Xbox One S All-Digital Forager Stardew Valley Sega Saturn Sega Dreamcast Apple Rainbow Apple Logo Returning? Think different #ask...

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339: Ketchup Momentum

02:03:13
John's cheese-grater update NiCad battery NiCad battery example Hunt's 100% Natural Tomato Ketchup Heinz Ketchups More on Apple Card Opting out of arbitration for Apple Card Apple Card has no web interface Follow-up: JSON streaming Length-prefixed JSON Line-delimited...

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338: Double Chunking

01:39:12
Overcast beta and sync changes ETag JSON Protocol buffers SAX parser Chunking Vignette duplicate-image-detection update WWDC 2019 #222 Casey's current algorithm as suggested by Craig Hockenberry XOR A quick aside about SwiftUI DSL Casey on complexity John Sundell's w...

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337: Sea Conditions Are Calm

02:12:20
Pre-show: John's vacation wrap-up Chunnel Auto Train Follow-up: John's Apple sticker on his Civic Shallow water blackout Thunder in Paradise Dropbox alternatives Synology Drive Resilio Growl Port forwarding information The Talk Show #258 with discussion about iClou...

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336: Your Face Is Not Your Face

01:57:55
Pre-show: Nutrition is hard when you're in high school. Top Four #19: Cereals From a Van WSJ Grape-Nuts article Follow-up: iOS 13 optimized-battery-charging specifics Apple TV remote's influence on product box size Time Machine reliability when hosted on a NAS RAID "Dr...

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335: Withhold the Fun

01:35:19
Relay FM 5th Anniversary Show iOS 13 charging optimization Follow-up: APFS volumes for photos instead of sparse disk images Dave Nanian tweets: 1 2 SuperDuper Fun Fact on the root group being named wheel shall/should/may/can iPhone SE & headphones Powerbeats Pro...

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334: Mechanical Disadvantage

01:59:55
Pre-show: Must vs. Shall RFC 2119 FAA: What's the only word that means mandatory? Follow-up: John's cheese grater broke Casey's shaming OXO current model John's model Casey's pitched option 99% Invisible: Built on Sand Deviation from the Ive design philosophy Marco's ...

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333: Pesky Human Issues

01:49:28
Follow-up: Expansion Slot Utility PCI Express Jony Ive leaves Apple Clockwise #301: My Vulcan Mind Ben Thompson's piece ATP #120: One Magical Wire Wall Street Journal on Ive's Departure Jony Ive's Christmas Tree The Talk Show #256: 'A Bit Too Thin', with Special Gues...

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332: Fuzzy Muppet Felt

01:49:51
Pre-show: Marco's new beach toy Follow-up: Ricky Mondello on Sign In with Apple macOS app-removal bets: #287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich (Overcast timestamp link) Marco's spirit walk AirPods {Fit in The case} Airpods Earpods Covers Compatible with airpods 2&1 An...

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331: The Technical Burden of Users

01:50:38
Follow-up: Mac Pro vent design New Yorker article Apple Reverses Course on MDM & Parental Control Apps Apple tightens up rules for enterprise app certificates iOS 13 Bluetooth permission dialogs Marco's tweets 1 2 3 Benjamin Herrin's findings application(_:didFin...