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The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams! 👻
Frame Game
Explainer post
Fastest solve: 12 seconds
Follow-up:
Apple Studio Display camera update
Snell’s coverage
Snell’s video
Comparison with iMac Pro by Ja...
479: Never Mind, I’m Out
The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams! 👻
Pre-show: Marco has HomePod problems
Pop Hits: {year} (1955–2021)
Rock Hits: {year} (1965–2021)
Hard to Handle by Otis Redding
Hard to Handle by The Black Crowes
Cr...
478: No Bum Cores
The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8 PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams! 👻
Pre-show: Marco has questionable media choices
Severance
The Dropout
WeCrashed
Silicon Valley
Antitrust
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Follow-up:
Tragic Original Gravi...
477: In the Metal
Pre-show: Marco played himself
Would there be a “Studio Display Max” within two years?
22” Cinema Display
23” Cinema Display
27” Cinema Display
27” Thunderbolt Display
Marco’s Studio Display impressions
NuShelf Dual Mount for Mac mini
New Peripherals
Black Keyboa...
476: Plausibly Viable
Follow-up:
Resolution independence
10.4 Tiger
10.5 Leopard
10.7 Lion
Steve Jobs’s Retina Diagram
Retina Display announcement
Joe Lion explains why silicon wafers are round
Video Explanation
Jonathan Ragan-Kelley explains EMIB and LSI
Regarding Mac Studio fan no...
475: Shove It Out the Back
Pre-show: We’ve got 99 problems and Apple Music is… most of them.
On the Mac Studio’s extra SSD slot
512 Pixels
Ars Technica
Hector Martin
Asahi Linux
John’s heart shatters into a million pieces
(Mac Studio cooling and 😱 fan noise 😱)
Jason Snell’s review
Max Tech...
474: That’s Where the Magic Happens
Follow-up:
iPad Air does have stereo speakers
Mac Studio HDMI is still 2.0
HDMI 2.1
27” Studio Display Pro coming soon?
“Five-head” Origins
The Flop House #94: Conan the Barbarian @ 29:46
Victor Borge’s Inflationary Language
20 Fenchurch Street
The A7III does ...
473: Fanboats and Coattails
Apple’s “Peek Performance” Event
New Apple Watch band collection
Beanie Babies
🇺🇦 Tim Cook 🇺🇦
Apple TV+
Luck (TV Series)
Luck (Film)
Apple + Baseball
Jason’s recap
An aside about transportation woes
Gibbs Aquada
Duck Boat
Fan/Air boat
iPhone SE 3
iPad Ai...
472: File a Casey Radar
Pre-show: 🇺🇦 ATP Stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦
Washington Post coverage
Jason Snell on Apple vs. 🇷🇺 & 🇨🇳
Follow-up:
There definitely is not a “cure” for celiac disease
Conquering shared contacts with a shared iCloud account
Several fascinating pieces of accessibility-r...
471: My Fiber Situation Is Fine
Pre-show: Casey messes with Marco during his very difficult day
Celiac
Important follow-up: in short, actual celiac disease cannot be cured, so the people in question most likely had other forms of gluten intolerance
Colostrum (the pills Marco got — ask a doctor, Y...
470: Computers Can Do Things
Follow-up:
Jump-starting an ICE using a Tesla (via Jesper Weltz)
Another video (via Jameson)
James May’s Model S’s catastrohpic failure
Porsche Taycan
Mercedes-Benz EQS
AirTags anti-tracking update
The Downeaster “Alexa”
Amsterdam’s transformation from car-cent...
469: Tiny Toastie
Pre-show: The newest member of Marco’s family
The originating member
Siracusa’s history
Siracusa’s thoughts
The new member
Prior experiences with the new member of the family
Follow-up:
Casey replaces his FiOS set-top box
Casey’s new UPS
TechSee
AlDente
Casey’s Em...
468: You Got Your Non-Money’s Worth
Pre-show: Marco enters winter luxury
Marco’s “Slippers”
John’s Slippers
Marco’s Rug
Marco’s Rug Heater
Reminder: Celsius is stupid for ambient air temperatures
Robot or Not: Sundays
Follow-up:
Google ships tapback parsing
Regarding “Screeners”
Xbox Game Pass
PC Ga...
467: The Strain Provider
Pre-show: Marco’s Baking Hangover
Follow-up:
Casey’s Desk Update
Casey’s Thunderbolt 4 Hub / “Breakout Box”
Simon Webster on QD-OLED and Blue LEDs
Jon Mason on how big Sony is
Xbox Gamepass and Series S
Neil Young & Spotify
Horse Armor
Scorched Earth
iMessage...
466: There’s Probably a Wizard for It
Pre-show: Windows woes and the challenges of loading modern trucks
TPM
yt-dlp
DeCSS
SGX
FairPlay
Pirated movie release types
Follow-up:
Printer Murder Rooms
John Tsombakos
Richard Smith
LG UltraFine 5K Repair Video (via Brian Almeida)
Microsoft to Acquire Act...
465: Lasers Are Great
Follow-up:
Fi dog-collar pronunciation
Discount code ATP100 for $100 off (not a sponsor)
New Ford Mustangs will be available in 2023–2024
Sony did show PSVR2 controllers
Mirrorless advantages and the longevity of Canon DSLRs (from Justin Krohn)
TV technology
WRGB O...
464: Monks at Drafting Tables
Follow-up:
Stuart Hay on chroma sub-sampling, 4:2:2, 4:1:1, 4:2:0
Hyper Thunderbolt 4 Dock
Hyper USB-C Media Hub
A not-too-short aside about iPad connectivity and expandability
Loopback
David Smith’s tweet
Audio Hijack
Audiobus
Drafting table
Xcode and setting ...
463: No Indication of Progress
Pre-show:
Marco’s desk situation
Casey’s desk situation
VESA stand
…an uglier one
…yet uglier still
…stand and arm
Follow-up:
Jonathan Dietz Comes Through
Glenwing’s page and calculator and forum post
Chroma Subsampling
USB4/TB4 bandwidth (via Dimitri Bouni...
462: Xcode X
Pre-show: “Web3”
Follow-up:
Thank you, ATP members
Casey has changed up his setup yet again
Ian Fuchs at Cult of Mac
Alogic Thunderbolt 4 Blaze Hub
OWC Thunderbolt Hub
CalDigit Element Hub
CalDigit TS3+
Team Arment on Twitch
Elgato HD60 S+
C13 plug
“☝️ Well, a...
461: Re-tend That Garden
Pre-show:
Why would one deliberately launch TextEdit‽
The flood 😱
Cable Matters 2.5” drive enclosure
Synology DS1813+
Synology 620Slim
Synology DS420j
RAID 0
Backblaze B2
Follow-up:
Andrew shares a Consumer Reports link regarding lithium batteries in smoke dete...
460: Desktop Laptop
Pre-show: Christmas Conundrums
Charlie Brown Tree
Follow-up:
Ubiquiti’s breach was from the inside
Casey’s UltraFine 5K seems to be UltraDead
Idan Warsawski’s explanation & more
Casey’s borrowed monitor
Casey’s blog post about Apple’s monitor situation
John’...
459: The Bluetooth Adds Warmth
Shocking revelations:
Marco’s wrist
Casey’s desk
The myth of digital audio producing stair-step sound waves
Casey’s Double Density appearance
Xiph explainer video
DAC
Nyquist level
Apple’s monitor-pricing conundrum
Luna Display updates
Follow-up: Junior vs....
458: This Is Not Your First Plane Crash
Pre-show:
Energizer lithium AA batteries and 9V for smoke alarms
Marco’s utterly bananas password-managers setup
The ATP on-demand store is back!
Follow-up:
Meta/Facebook
In the Enterprise
workplace.com
An aside about scrolljacking
Parallax Scrolling
Ha...
457: The World’s Greatest Conference Call
Pre-show:
Watching shows on Apple
Some ATP membership bookkeeping
Follow-up:
Xcode build times (via Abel Demoz)
defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode ShowBuildOperationDuration YES
Monterey’s Mouse Pointer Memory Leak Bug
Marco has [Original] HomePod Problems
Belkin ...
456: The Monitor Situation
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Follow-up:
iMessage in iCloud Security Overview
Apple’s T2 Macs ...
455: Your Yanking Force
The ATP Store IS BACK! Grab your fancy new M1 Pro or Max shirts, winter hats, or classic merch until the end of the day on 12 November!
Remember, ATP Members get 15% off on
time-limited sales like this one!
Pre-show: Setup Woes
Audition
Homebrew Bundle
Casey’s Post o...
454: The Notch is Young
The ATP Store IS BACK! Grab your fancy new M1 Pro or Max shirts, winter hats, or classic merch until the end of the day on 12 November!
Remember, ATP Members get 15% off on
time-limited sales like this one!
Pre-show: Marco’s acquisition adventure
IceMule Cooler Backpack...
453: As the Prophecy Foretold
Apple’s “Unleashed.” Event
Start Up
John’s Tweet
Apple ✔️s (scroll way down)
Monterey quick hits
Monday, 25 October
Tabs that look like tabs!!
Snell’s coverage
M1 Pro & M1 Max
John’s “City of Chips” tweet
John’s Self-FU
John’s “City of Chips” diagram...
452: It’s Totally Leashed
Pre-show: Apple Watch preorders
Follow-up:
Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive
Microsoft store to allow third-party app stores
Matryoshka doll-720p-RiP.mkv
Yo dawg
MTV’s Pimp My Ride
Thomas Q Brady’s adventures with his iPhone 13 P...
451: A Series of Terrible Magic Tricks
Pre-show:
Facebook’s outage
BGP is a thing. Who knew? (John did.)
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
Explanation from Facebook
Thank you to Hsiang-Ling Jennifer Lin’s parents!
We’ve opened an on-demand ATP store!
Quinn Nelson’s YouTube chann...