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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...
450: Distending My Wardrobe
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Crypto donations — Absolve yourself of guilt for destroying the planet by helping destroy cancer instead!
Pre-show: Some navel-gazing (much like E...
449: An Unclean Mouse
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Pre-show: A little bit more about Electr...
448: Next Year, Which Is Now
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Apple Event
Apple TV+
iPad
iPad Mini
...
447: Lunchbox on Your Face
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Pre-show:
Casey’s very big day
Robert E. Lee Statue removed from Richmond’s Monument Avenue
What is a Hokie?
Teaching Marco geography
Fire Is...
446: Dead From Fraud
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Follow-up:
Wirecutter moves behind a paywall
Neven’s tweet
Best blender is not a wasteland… sometimes.
Cryptographic hashes vs. Apple’s CSAM Ne...
445: Best Blender Is a Wasteland
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Follow-up:
Follow-up from Hypercritical #31 on 24 August 2011 (via Philip Spedding)
Overcast timestamp link
Casey apologizes to Collin Donnell
...
444: It Should Definitely Bother Apple
Follow-up:
Disney PhotoPass (via Ryan D)
Bug bounties (via Dan Chandler)
Cryptocurrency and failed monetary systems
CSAM
Security Threat Model Rview of Apple’s Child Safety Features
Joanna Stern’s interview with Craig Federighi
Patriot Act
Digital Millennium Copyright ...
443: A Storm of Asterisks
Pre-show: Marco files a verbal Radar for Apple Music
God Shuffled His Feet
A Worm’s Life
The Joshua Tree
Illusion is Now
Follow-up:
Why is there no weather/Calculator iPad app? (via Tatsuhiko Miyagawa)
AMD W6xxx video cards are “workstation” cards
Why Apple can’t pa...
442: Bob’s Barbecue
Pre-show:
Phish is back. Yay? (Yay. -ed.)
Days of the New’s new album
Travis Meeks
Days of the New II
Follow-up:
Apple Music
Everyone (including Andrew Bement) pointed Casey to SongShift (App Store link)
There are lots of third-party music players, which Mar...
441: Meals at Home
Pre-show:
LivePhish.com
Playdate
Collin Donnell
Status Board
Tamagotchi
Follow-up:
Everyone, but especially Americans, please get vaccinated!
More Safari Updates
Stroke around window widgets on macOS
iPadOS Updates
iOS Updates
Sam Gross’ HIG observation
...