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540: The Points Don’t Matter

02:01:34
Pre-show: Good SwiftUI days Follow-up: Vision Pro Privacy considerations (via Brandon Jones) WWDC 2023 #10096: Build Great Games for Spatial Computing Designing for Spatial Input 6m5s 7m8s Vergence & accommodation in eyesight (via Christopher Masto) Ve...

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539: The Strap Situation

02:23:49
Pre-show: SwiftUI requires Wi-Fi Flighty “Siri” utterances were trifled with? (via Jackson Ames) “Alexa” not recognized with frequency-range muting (or known-fingerprint matching) iOS 17: Siri & Search → Listen For Vision Pro Promo video xrOS at WWDC Mas...

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538: We Studied Thousands of Heads

03:34:04

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537: Worse Than All of Our Toilets

02:29:45
Pre-show: Phish season Live Phish DMB Friday Night Concert Series Goose on Bandcamp Follow-up: The Anonymous Corner Some anonymous thoughts on mail delivery to Apple Park BELIEVE shirts are at Apple Park Rank-and-file engineers also hate Radar Why does Apple both...

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536: I Reboot With Reason

02:21:02
Follow-up: Alex Stevenson-Price’s thread on his initial experiences with the Dell 6K monitor Monitor Control Dell Display Manager (via Ben Smith) Hands on with Final Cut Pro & Logic for iPad Ferrite Dan Moren says Time-based rulers don’t work Keep Final Cut P...

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535: My Computer Supports Math

02:37:27
Pre-show: 🗣️ New Member’s Special posted 🗣️ A New Yorker’s View of the United States Follow-up: The Kobo FU continues The Libra 2 does have support, kinda (via Stefano Costatini) Install NickelMenu Add the Dropbox menu item Libra 2 Other Kobos Multiple Displ...

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534: On the Cheerleader Bus

02:15:35
Follow-up: Marco’s new Kobo Kobo will price-match (via Bob Pekol) Games breaking the fourth wall Metal Gear Solid Controller Swap Trick Blackbox (App Store link) (via Andrew Clark) Batman: Arkham Asylum (via David Kung) Business perspective on 15” MacBook Air (...

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533: The Beach Is the Beach

02:01:47
The ATP Store is BACK, baby! Order your merch ⚠️ before Saturday, 6 May ⚠️. Pre-show: Marco has e-reader pre-show follow-up kobo sage PMN Caecilia Calibre what if? Pragmatic Programmer Tao Te Ching 1984 Follow-up: Mac Pro Believe art update (thanks, Cristofer Cruz) Q...

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532: The Meat Part of Multitasking

02:28:37
The ATP Store is BACK, baby! Order your merch before Saturday, 6 May. Pre-show: Marco re-discovers reading Boox Nova Air C Kindle Oasis (2nd-gen.) reMarkable Jason’s e-Reader Roundup iPad Mini (6th-gen.) Tobor Robot PMN Caecilia (the original Kindle font) Follow-up:...

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531: Rock It in the Right Direction

01:49:45
The ATP Store is BACK, baby! Order your merch before Saturday, 6 May. Pre-show: Five K’s is just. not. enough. Follow-up: macOS 13.3 window-dragging lag (FB12122106) has returned 😱 John’s demo GIF Demo Video CarPlay does avoid some problems Newer version of Casey...

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530: You Are Not Nintendo

02:03:45
Pre-show: Top Four: Hot Pockets Hot Pockets Pizza Rolls Fun Dip Pixy Stix Nerds The Food that Built America Smarties Sprees SweetTarts Jelly Belly Weird and Gross Follow-up: The Letterboxd app (App Store) are native. We know it’s at least in part Daniel Compton’s...

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529: The Cycles of Marco

02:18:11
Pre-show: Mugs & some pint glasses are in stock! Fixes: Member’s episodes and iPod & iTunes/Music users (yes, really) Prospective members from 🇮🇳 Thank you, new and existing members! 💙💙💙 Follow-up: Quick correction about the CalDigit TS4 Apple Photos de-...

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528: My Favorite Slap in the Face

02:20:28
Pre-show: Samoas vs. Caramel DeLites Casey found 🎉 More Occasions! 🎉 John’s anniversary & ATP #476 Jonathan’s anniversary ATP Movie Club returns! We watched My Neighbor Totoro Follow-up: HDMI Quick Media Switching (QMS) in action Threaded rod suggestions ...

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527: The True Siri Experience

02:07:22
Pre-show: Marco has solved his Apple Watch Ultra band problem? Orange Alpine Loop Trail Loop Ocean Band Solo Loop Follow-up: iOS 16.4 will detect duplicate photos in iCloud Shared Photo Library Kurt’s screenshot John chose… poorly RTINGS OLED Burn-In testing u...

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526: Food Comes From Cans

01:57:14
Pre-show: Marco’s load-bearing pinky We stand in support of trans people, including trans youth. 🏳️‍⚧️ Alex Cox’s words Alex Cox’s voice 5calls.org Moltz’s toot Happy 10th anniversary, ATP! Follow-up: Press ↑ to see the Apple TV screensaver location. (via Ted) R...

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525: The Glory Speakers

02:16:43
Pre-show: Declan made an interesting observation Marco files a bug report… AND ACTUALLY GETS A RESPONSE unlike FB12026558: “Media services reset repeatedly upon initiating audio playback in iOS 16.4 betas” John has…returned. Follow-up: Avoiding Shoulder Surfing ...

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524: The Anti-Fireplace Lobby

02:15:31
Pre-show: Please go decline your Tweetbot/Twitterrific refunds! Follow-up: John’s COVID project mcg’s Experience with the Sony HT-A9 Larry King’s band’s Rivian Parody “Not yellow” ≠ “no fun colors” Adam Wunn on iMazing Report on the Apple TV remote with touch disabled...

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523: I Can’t Give Him the Carrot Fast Enough

02:07:46
Pre-show: ✅ ATP hat-trick achieved ☹️ Follow-up: Getting a copy of your data from Apple privacy.apple.com Zack Whittaker’s experience in 2018 GDPR iMazing On our slagging of Dolby Pro Logic (via Rob Howard) A tip about Skip Intro on Apple TV (via Mark Johnson) More o...

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522: I’ll Just Keep You for Ten Years

02:08:12
Pre-show: Marco is living the true Land Rover experience TFL Offroad Your Daily Lex Follow-up: The foibles of a 2.1 setup (via Samuel Polay) Sony HT-A9 & SA-SW5 Video review Bundle on Amazon What’s the ∆ between Apple TVs? (via Andy Galletly) An Unsolicited ...

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521: Dance Compatible

02:06:04
Pre-show: Marco relives his middle-school years Follow-up: HomePod 2 Siri speed test video And a related #askatp from Justin Saucier Sonos Premium Entertainment Set with Arc HomePod 2 power connector IEC 60320 A fix for tapping the HomePod near an outlet Foo...

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520: Bananas Ingestion System

02:09:45
Pre-show: Your hosts have a discussion about music. We’re… um… sorry. macOS: Settings → Advanced → Add songs to Library when adding to playlists iOS: Settings→ Music → Add Playlist Songs Follow-up: Overview of US healthcare terminology Ars Technica on the US heal...

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519: Paint My Wings

01:54:05
Pre-show: Frame Game ❗️ New Member’s special ❗️ Belated observation of an anniversary Casey’s ATP announcement tweet Follow-up: The new Mac mini is the same dimensions as the old one But the base-model SSD is far slower… again. Max Tech Twitter officially b...

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518: Deconstructed iMac

02:22:40
Pre-show: Marco’s window-washing woes Chicken hat dregs ❗️ Imminent members-only special ❗️ Follow-up: Getty Images suing creators of Stable Diffusion Stable Diffusion Litigation One more from CES: solid-state cooling PC World video Microelectromechanical s...

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517: A Tesla Full of Kindles

02:13:25
Pre-show: Marco still has his red hat cursed car Follow-up: Backing up iPhoto Libraries (via Jonas) Dell 5K monitor Dell 6K monitor Teaser video Dell resolution: 6144 × 3456 XDR resolution: 6016 × 3384 CES TV News Samsung 77-inch QD-OLED LG Signature OLED “wi...

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516: One of My Fits of Rage

02:10:12
Pre-show: Vacations, illness, birthdays, and carrot cake Follow-up: AI Art & Copyright (via Amy Lee) Github Terms of Service Github Corporate Terms of Service CRUD chkbit True Life Diary Marco, CloudKit, and Overcast Under the Radar #258: A Less-Cloudy ...

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515: The Elder Programmer Look

02:13:18
Pre-show: Marco has decreed today is Christmas Eve. Project Highrise Don’t Starve Together Follow-up: Butterfly Keyboard class-action lawsuit payouts Artists can now opt out of the next version of Stable Diffusion Have I Been Trained? Have I Been Pwned? A fun Tw...

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514: My Immense Softness

01:45:25
Pre-show: Period pieces about x2 and k56flex Superbad DIVX Follow-up: Casey has fixed his Docker problems with Colima? Apple is considering dropping the WebKit requirement? Blink Gecko Some clarifications and feedback about the SR-71 (via Chris) Trident II D5 ...

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513: Scribble on the Shared Placemat

02:09:32
Pre-show: Is moisturizer real? Orange Goop The 🐔🧢 is back!! Follow-up: Recovery keys & backup contacts Apple’s information Oliver Ames’ thoughts More on StoreKit 2 and Refunds Tech Talk Request a Refund The Sharrow is real, John. WWDC 2017 Relevant...

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512: Owned With a P

01:56:33
Pre-show: Past-Marco made poor life choices, and today-Marco paid the price Follow-up: Mastodon instances and federation Hive Social is going… well, it’s not really going actually Sharrow 👍 Merlin is vindicated; it’s a real thing 👎 …but it’s not exactly a “share arro...

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511: Moving to Antarctica

01:50:29
Pre-show: Sharrows EVERYONE has written in to tell us about the bike-lane symbols, thank you, no need for anyone else to write in – ed. The ATP On-Demand Store is live for your holiday needs! Follow-up: Bridging async/await ↔ Obj-C (via Aaron Farnham) Marco’s 🍑💨...