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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...
359: I Could Live in There
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 ...
358: Emotional-Support Mac Pro
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 ...
357: A Giant Green Field
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...
356: With a Heavy Heart
- Follow-up:
- Casey's Computer Corner Footnote
- Bendy extended keyboards
- Destiny on Stadia
- iPad Remote Control & Apple Classroom
- The Mac Pro Configurator
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355: The Way Corn Grows
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 ...
354: Casey’s Computer Corner
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...
353: Modern-Day Dialup
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
...
352: No One Else Had Calipers
- ATP HOLIDAY SHIRTS available until Sunday, November 17
- Follow-up:
- Mac Pro available "December"
- iOS 13.2.2
- Casey's Catalina Catastrophe
- 16-inch MacBook Pro: Initial Impressions
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351: The Floor Is High
Pre-show: 🐛💇🏻♂️
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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...
350: Wax Buddies
- Accidental Sports Podcast
- ATP HOLIDAY SHIRTS available until Sunday, November 17
- 16" Key Layout Leak?
- iOS 13.2 issues
- Samsung's new foldable flip-phone
- Airpods Pro
- Mac Pros in stores?
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#askatp- Should I wait to buy a new Mac until they're on ARM? (via James Shield)
- Why hasn't Time Machine been updated to use symbolic links? (via Adam Spelbring)
- How does one get started with Letterbox D? (via Andrew Myers)
- Post-show: 🚙⚡
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349: Formative Tech Dystopia
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...
348: Panic Shutdown
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...
347: Not Enough Carrot to Take the Stick
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...
346: Go Back and Pop Myself
- Follow-up:
- Casey's broken iMac
- Casey's broken Apple Watch
- Apple software quality
- iPhone X/XS → 11 Pro Transfer
- XDR Display Tech in iPads and MacBook Pros?
- Mac Pros + Avid + Chrome = 💀
- TiVo shows commercials before DVR recordings
- New Microsoft hardware
- Post-show: Marco's UISearchController woes
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345: Unapologetically Digital
- Last chance for September donations to St. Jude
- Analog(ue) #166 (to be released Sunday, 29 September)
- Podcastathon video
- Pre-show: The fine art of literature, and staying young.
- Follow-up:
- AppleCare+ refunds/enrollment details
- iPhone 11 battery/RAM details
- A13 is 🍌 fast
- Casey's iMac Update
- Apple Watch Series 5 impressions
- iPhone 11 Pro impressions
- Post-show: 🐭
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344: Peace in the Battery Kingdom
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...
343: The Stand Is Your Hand
- Please donate to St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital
- Apple September Event
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342: The Opposite of Con
- Casey, DMB, and Sirius XM
- Follow-up:
- Drawbacks to Apple using opt-in privacy
- Apple card activation videos
- Credit cards advertising based on the weight of the cards
- Kerf bespoke Apple Card cases (via The Kavalier)
- Apple September Event
- Post-show: The Summer of Marco
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341: John Is My Default
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
...
340: You Are a Computer Athlete
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...
339: Ketchup Momentum
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...
338: Double Chunking
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...
337: Sea Conditions Are Calm
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...
336: Your Face Is Not Your Face
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...
335: Withhold the Fun
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...
334: Mechanical Disadvantage
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 ...
333: Pesky Human Issues
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...
332: Fuzzy Muppet Felt
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...
331: The Technical Burden of Users
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...