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Pre-show: Some Administrivia
New ATP member’s special!
ATP episodes are now on YouTube!
Follow-up:
Marco’s UPS issue
Eaton UPS backup (via Jeff Strobel)
UPSes don’t like “dirty” power
Yes, y’all, John can be wrong sometimes.
But maybe he was 🤏🏻 right too? 🤔
Jo...
569: Do Grasshoppers Have Tongues?
- Pre-show: Dad Dreams
- Follow-up:
- New watch bands will actually be… cases? (via Videoalex)
- Time-shifting was successful
- OLED iPad Pros will also break the bank
- Apple 🤝 AWS
- People… write answers for Alexa‽ 🤯
- Incase 🤝 Microsoft
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Vision Pro launches 2 February
- Vision Pro will have 16GB RAM
- YouTubers will get two demos
- Apple’s “Get Ready” ad
- Apple is very particular about how you represent “Vision Pro”
- Apple is offering Vision Pro demos
- Apple Vision Pro focal distance?
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568: The Year of Romance
Pre-show: Time-shifting
Dave Matthews Band Crew Q&A
Follow-up:
AI Agita
Apple’s paper regarding optimizing on-device LLM
Summary by luokai
Apple explores AI training deals with news publishers
New York Times sues OpenAI & Microsoft for copyright infringe...
567: macOS Uranus
Pre-show: Running public sound
Automixing
Sound Devices Mix Pre-10 II
Zoom F8n
Zoom LiveTrak L8
Reminder that gift memberships make for a great last-minute gift!
Follow-up:
iCloud.com login with only a password
Apple Store experience (via Morgan Schönberger)
More d...
566: Using It Is Wearing It Out
Gift memberships make for great last-minute gifts!
Follow-up:
Apple devices and OLED burn-in
iPhone XS burn-in (via David Gian-Cursio)
iPhone 11 Pro burn-in (via Jamieson Weiss)
Apple Watch Series 5 & iPhone 13 Pro Max (via Keith)
Apple Store diagnostics
Stolen D...
565: Trickle-Up Concern
Pre-show: Cauterized pants
Show administrivia
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Follow-up:
More on Apple’s Blue Ocean
The 🇪🇺 is doing 🇪🇺 things
…and Apple is doing Apple things
📟 Battle
Yet more on ECC RAM from Jonathan Dietz Jr.
Micron wh...
564: Always Get the Biggest Pizza
Follow-up:
Other People’s Code
Audio sample
Laura Savino’s Talk at CppCon 2023
AirJet cooling a MacBook Air
Previously on ATP
Keycap replacements at Apple Stores?
Apple Stores will price-match?
Maybe use KidArt for kid… art? (App Store link)
How does Thunderbolt...
563: Drain the Attic
Pre-show: Moving is not fun.
Marie Kondo
Follow-up:
Apple fixes worn keycaps (via Ezekiel Elin)
OpenAI
Sam Altman Reinstated
Five Days of Chaos
Tip for buying smart thermostats (via Neil Weinstock)
Dominion Energy’s offerings
Marco’s many-taps Ecobee
Chip pack...
562: Do You Have a Dragon?
Pre-show:
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Follow-up:
Keyboard wear
Finger grease (via Ryan Holmes)
ABS plastic
PBT plastic
A true horror show (via Andrew)
MacBook Pro thermal tests
More about chi...
561: Market Your Bug
Show Administrivia:
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ATP Dev: Other People’s Code
Follow-up:
Face ID is also an accessbility affordance (via Todd Scheresky)
Uses for 🛢️👃🏻 (via Jam...
560: They’re All Rectangles
Pre-show: Marco has discovered knobbed microwaves
John’s toaster journey
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Follow-up:
Apple Event was “shot on iPhone”
Behind the Scenes
The Verge’s silly take
Stu Maschewitz’s overview
David Steer in defense of the M3-plain MacBo...
559: The Tall Lettuce
- Pre-show: Everything’s upside down, so let’s talk fashion.
- Apple’s October event
- Post-show: Hypothetical boxed lunches
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558: Multilevel Pizza Oven
Pre-show: ATP Membership changes
Apple price hikes
Membership FAQ
Want to pay us more? Here’s how!
Follow-up:
Rivian sounds are based on nature
20k Hz: Auto-Tone
Updating iPhones in-box
iPhones can be charged through the existing retail box
What if the update is...
557: The Phone-Box Lottery
We absolutely and unequivocally condemn the murder and kidnapping of innocent civilians.
Casey Neistat’s video
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Follow-up:
Will Kiefer, Rewind.ai’s CTO, has some FU
iPhone 15s have a n...
556: Apple Chips Are People
Follow-up:
Overall St. Jude winner: James Neal
John’s window bug
Polling rate does make a difference
Source video
Polling rate to window quantity experiment
Source video
Macs vs. Chromebooks in education (via John Weston & Steve Ligett)
Upgrade #480: ...
555: A Very Eventful Day
Pre-show: Marco has thoughts on the FineWoven case
CHOCK’s medusa cable
Follow-up:
John takes us on an adventure
FB13211706 — Window dragging is laggy and jumpy when more than one user is logged in
Demo video
Maybe it’s the video card?
What if it’s the mouse?
Oh no,...
554: Is This Your Dog?
Pre-show: Marco is… somewhere unexpected
Modern 5G hotspots vs. tethering
Casey’s travel router
🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
The Marco Offset
Podcastathon Part 1
Podcastathon Part 2
Follow-up:
John’s PR
…and Docker explorations
fish
iPhon...
553: Cut the Bridges to the Mainland
Pre-show: John’s enhancement requests
🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
The Marco Offset
ATP Top Four: Laptops. Join to listen!
Follow-up:
Apple-products-save-your-life video
Apple Watch Ultra 2 naming
Titanium watches
Cost ∆s (via Dan Provost)
Warr...
552: Not a Saturated Year
Pre-show: Marco’s Wi-Fi Woes
RealPlayer
🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
The Marco Offset
Apple Event on September 12
System in a Package (SiP)
System on a Chip (SoC)
Six Colors’ small discoveries
GE fuel injector AM article
Dr. Drang’s post on i...
551: Tickle Rock You
- Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
- Follow-up:
- iPhone 14 Pro 2× vs. cropping a 1× photo
- iPhone 14 Pro Dynamic Island
- Flighty
- Sports Alerts (App Store link)
- You can update TCL Roku TV via USB (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
- Apple Park & garbage cans
- Apple Event on September 12
- Post-show Neutral:
- Rivian is canning their ugliest paint option
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550: A Wizard With No Choices
Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
Follow-up:
Obscura 4 is out! (App Store link)
Alternative TCL TV workarounds (via Chris Berryhill)
Child Gmail Accounts
Children cannot set up email forwarding (via Henri Sivonen)
Child accounts are ripe for...
549: Unauthorized Trash Can
Pre-show:
Marco’s box truck
TruckMap
Trucker Path
🗣️ New ATP Membership Survey 🗣️
(This is for everyone, not just members)
🗣️ New member special: ATP Tier List: Every iMac 🗣️
Follow-up:
iMac Tier List
Intel Core vs. Core 2 ∆s (via Michael Gabriel)
Marco claim...
548: Starting to Count Chickens
Pre-show: LG stand woes & Casey pronunciation woes
Follow-up:
Casey’s fire hazard has been returned
Text editors
Yes, we forgot about Nova. Our bad.
Zed (in beta)
vi
ls -l `which vi`
mg
README
/usr/bin/mg
nano
pico
Neat Safari-in-Sonoma trick
LLCs may ...
547: Own Your Pricing
Pre-show:
⚠️ LAST CHANCE FOR HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ⚠️
Follow-up:
Mophie 3-in-1 travel charger
Reported issues
Firmware update kit
Casey’s fire hazard
John’s Photos issues
He knows about modifier keys, y’all.
MacPaint
MacDraw
Odd behavior with iPhone camera a...
546: Re-Crop With the Wisdom of Age
Pre-show:
Marco’s Overcast rewrite
🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Follow-up:
Synology Dynamic DNS
Alex Mazanov (of SwiftBar fame)’s interesting idea
CNAME
Marco’s security camera update
Scrypted
Eufy
Cameras with HomeKit Secure Video support
John’s s...
545: My Butler Can’t Use It
🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Pre-show: Marco mended something!
How-to video
The good replacement part
Which one of us is which?
Meet Your Hosts
Apple Vision Pro labs, developer kits, and more
MacVoices #1070: Marco’s first podcast appearance?
James T...
544: Valid in a Marco Way
Pre-show:
Blue Man Group
🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Follow-up:
EV thoughts from Sam Abuelsamid
ID.4 vs. Honda Accord
EVs make more particulate matter
DeMuro on the Kia EV6 GT
Tesla V4 Superchargers
iPadOS 17 window management
An extended aside...
543: 100 Million Tire-Kickers
Pre-show: Marco’s butt-crack update
Follow-up:
Upgrade #467: The Least Important Mac Follow-out
The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor (2013)
Vision Pro eyes
The Talk Show #378 (YouTube link)
Listener Occupation Overview
Statistical analysis and standard error (...
542: Penguin Camel Monkey Shark
Pre-show:
How did we celebrate the Fourth of July?
Member Episodes Survey
Follow-up:
As per anonymous, Ternus received our Mac Pro shirt. 🫣
Adam Eccles expands the ATP Listener Universe™
Yes, Full Photos Access gives apps carte blanche (via Peter Gertsen-Schibbye)
...
541: Make a Little Maze
Pre-show: 🗣️ New Member’s Special Just Dropped 🗣️
Tier List - Wikipedia
Tier Lists - Know Your Meme
Follow-up:
With regard to the “real-time OS” and the roles of the R1
Secure Enclave Processor
Real-time operating system
Vision Pro and vision
VAC
James O’Laughli...