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277: You’re Not a Mac App Yet

01:32:41

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276: Observing a Black Hole

02:14:33

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275: It’s Difficult When You’re a Billionaire

01:53:17
Follow-up: People can change their minds, and that's okay. Right, old Marco? Your logical fallacy is... How old are your ears? Some Analog(ue) #132 follow-out Cortex #69: Minimum Viable Tesla and Elon Musk Grimes, Elon's girlfriend Top Gear kerfuffle Elon announces...

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274: Not the Teddy Bear’s Fault

01:59:09
Yanny vs. Laurel New York Times article Follow-up: Raise to listen in 🇨🇳 Google Duplex Bob Burrough's summary Matt Drance 1 & 2 Duplex will identify as non-human First-hand story from retail Amazon and executive diversity 🤬 Twitter. Sean Heber Craig Hockenberr...

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273: Playing You Like a Video Game

01:38:49
Follow-up: Disabling "Raise to Listen" on iPhone X You should go to Layers Jony Ive interviewed by Hodinkee Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products Google Duplex Keynote video The Verge's 14-minute summary Ihnatko's take 20 years of USB iMac Retrospecti...

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272: 60% Satisfied

01:55:05

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271: Voting With Your Virtual Feet

01:35:21
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270: Three Major Zippers

01:36:49
Backpacks: Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L Tom Bihn Synapse 25 Chase Reeves on YouTube and on the web Tom Bihn Cache Tom Bihn Cadet & Casey's review HomePod sales look bad CloudFlare goes ARM When was Apple's heyday? The best laptop ever made Top Four Robot or N...

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269: Cooled by Jellyfish

01:45:23
Follow-up: iPhone throttling notification macOS 10.13.4 32-bit warnings Learn More... ProClip mounts (via Sean Harding) Casey's bloody car rags are called "hucks" and are available on Amazon Lyft subscriptions? (via Zac Bir) San Jose isn't as small as your hosts think...

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268: A Tarnished Brass Age

01:57:54

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267: I Slowly Ate the Crystals

01:36:19
Pre-show: Marco's road trip Sudden Coffee Underscore David Smith's travel coffee kit Follow-up: Breath of the Wild and the Wii U Space Gray accessories are available to everyone Keyboard Mouse Trackpad ATP Live at WWDC Walkie talkies for tandem road trips Apple's ed...

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266: Text Adventure Mode

02:09:44
Follow-up: Compound commands in cylinders You shut down your computer because of a problem... GDPR Personal data PCI HIPAA This keyboard feels so real, mannnnnn... Apple is developing its own display tech MicroLED Marco's image retention test Hide in this closet! Micr...

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265: Simon Says Volume Five

02:07:33
Follow-up: Onboarding and GDPR GDPR for web developers Slack 💔 IRC Alexa can solicit follow-up Siri drama at The Information Daring Fireball writeup Crumb-proof keyboards MacBook Air refresh? The Talk Show #219: Podcast Amnesia MacBook fantasies Casey's USB-C → SD...

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264: Every Building Has Bugs

01:51:35

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263: Old Potato

01:34:24
Follow-up: John is on NoMAD Active Directory Jamf's blog post Casey adopts a new child Timber Fireball AnyList Nexia AOL Instant Messenger handles ICQ Vulkan is coming to macOS More from AnandTech Metal Apple's dual-display patent ATP #193: The Escape Zone #...

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262: A Clear Path to Okayness

01:53:07
Casey's new career of missing obvious programming solutions Analog(ue) #126: I Love You So Much; This is Infuriating GIFwrapped Slopes Siri all up in Daniel Jalkut's business Sonos and wood Who has a HomePod? Echo Spot Google Home Mini Doubting Apple "No wireless. Le...

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261: Seven-Dollar Plastic Garbage

01:48:29

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260: The Todoyist Problem

01:56:10
Follow-up: Is throttling old phones really better? Does anyone other than tech bloggers give a 💩 about smart speakers? Raspberri Pi music player update Plastic Player Mini NES Console Apple's emoji is theirs and you can't have it. Connected #179: The Tiny Head Pandemic ...

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259: I Hired Myself

02:11:39
Who ordered a HomePod? Query #23: Hands-on with the HomePod iPod Hi-Fi iMore HomePod FAQ Casey orders an Ethernet adapter USB-C Ethernet Adapter USB-C HDMI Dongle Amazon Locker Forthcoming replacement Casey's Mac "app" Casey's photo management workflow Dr. Drang's photo...

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258: Non-Beta Data

01:35:30

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257: Smell the Wind

01:35:34

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256: A Heroic Threshold for Pain

02:01:16
Apple's Meltdown/Spectre statement How it affects WebKit Raspberry Pi's writeup Measuring performance ∆ iMac Pro peripherals on eBay Full set: $1080 Trackpad: $310+ Magic Mouse: $295+ Macintosh TV Follow-up: Arctic Silver Follow-up: Battery replacements and solving cu...

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255: The Thermal Paste Lottery

02:05:04
Apple's battery slowdown PR Accelerated rollout The Talk Show #210: Australian Battery Scam Phone throttling isn't always the issue iMac Pro thermal throttling Marco's iMac Pro Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard Intel CPU exploit Speculative execution Exploits seem to have mar...

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254: Hot Box With Knobs

02:24:56
Follow up: Secure Boot KBase Article Cabel's screenshot Women car journalists From last week: Cars from a Woman's Perspective #askatp Attention detection and Apple Watch (via Scott Lougheed) RAID and SSDs and Thunderbolt (via Max Velasco Knott) Tiff's OWC Thunde...

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253: I Think I Ordered One

02:05:51
Follow up: Jeep Wranglers iMac Pro RAM upgrades iMac Pro input devices Mac Pro will be "upgradeable" iMac Pro orders #askatp Entry-level open-backed headphones (via JD Lewin) Schiit Fulla 2 Grado SR60e: $80, but uncomfortable Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro: $225, for treble ...

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252: Any Day Could Be Mac Pro Day

01:56:27

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251: Uninstall Your Water Reminder App!

02:18:58
Casey argues for day/month/year instead of year/month/day (ISO 8601) Celsius is stupid for ambient air temperature Follow up: Root bug post was in the dev forums, not the support forums. Reporting to product-security@apple.com XProtect and Xplorer Shell script iOS keyb...

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250: We’re Doing a Show

02:29:15
Keyboard imprints on laptop screens Butterfly keyboard Video of Casey's old ThinkPad 701 Steganography Marco is no longer case-liss Jamie Clawson leather skins Apple Leather Case dbrand skins Follow-up: Fingerprint gloves 1 2 Thanksgiving follow-up: What about the Nint...

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249: Beehives Full of Bees

02:24:13
Follow up: iPhone X multitasking gesture Requesting refunds on AppleCare (via John Himm) Fake fingerprint stickers iCloud restores during iPhone X setup HomePod gets delayed Upgrade #168: Hail Hydrant Welcome to Macintosh #14: Hey Siri Regarding conspiracy theories (#...

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248: Chili Cookoff

01:53:53
Follow up: Tradespeople and Face ID Multitasking gesture wonkiness on the home screen "I got this phone for $50 and it's fine" Pro-rated AppleCare+ MacBook key repairs OLED and burn-in Kbase article (👋🏻, Stephen) iOS' commentary iPhone X camera Joe Rosensteel has thou...