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Accidental Tech Podcast

by Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Latest Episodes

287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich

Follow-up:
- Model 3 software update for the right jog wheel
  - Finding the settings
- Printing PDFs from Photos by ⌥-clicking the Buy Book button
- Backblaze
  - Data retention
  - Backing up a NAS using AutoMounter
- Dock auto-hide delay
  - defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0
  - defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
Marco reviews his 2018 13" MacBook Pro
Fall laptop predictions
#askatp:
- Why isn't there a RSS-like thing for video?
  - Squarespace
  - Libsyn
- Why trust the cloud at all if we can't have future-proof encryption?
- Which macOS feature gets 🌆 first? (via Marc Edwards)
  - Konfabulator
  - Graphing calculator story
Post-show: 🐝
- Yellow stripey things

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Posted on 16 August 2018 | 5:39 pm

286: I Respect a Good Crust

Pre-show: John's pie-filled vacation
- John's seemingly impossible picture
Follow-up:
- CrashPlan, John, and Java
  - java mx
  - java mx {newNumber}m
  - SpiderOak
  - BackBlaze
  - BackBlaze B2
  - Arq
- John's Photo books
- AMD and TSMC and 7nm
- DigitalFoundry on the Intel Core i9 9900K
- Some Neutral FU about the Golf R
Apple removes Infowars propoganda from its podcast directory
#askatp:
- Dock strategies (via Fabian Diehm)
- Sleep strategies (via Cecil Scheib)
- Transmission strategies (via Thomas Brock)
Post-show Neutral: Tesla screws up a good thing

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Posted on 9 August 2018 | 9:58 pm

285: Do Not Drill Holes in This House

Follow-up:
- The law is complicated
- Intel 10nm is allegedly coming at the end of NEXT year
On an infinite timescale, when does Apple move away from Intel?
- RISC-V
- Die
What happened to Apple's whimsy?
- Michael Tsai's summary
- Marco's comment
#askatp:
- Overflowing portable drives (via Bronwyn Erb)
  - Casey's Synology primer
- When do we replace our computers? (via Chris Tucker Mear)
  - MacRumors Buyer's Guide
- Swift and Copland 2010 (via Rob Mathers)
  - Copland 2010 revisited
- How is the new Dave Matthews Band album? (via Ted Hardy)
Post-show: Neutral
- Casey on Cars: Volkswagen Golf R
- Blog post

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Posted on 30 July 2018 | 3:27 pm

284: Hotel California Keyboard

Follow-up:
- Easier keycap replacement on the 2018 keyboard
- Membranes are for ingress prevention
- Intel giveth and Intel taketh away
  - The mythical USB-C hub
  - Sad recent history of Intel CPUs
Corrections on the throttling discussion from last week
VRM-throttling theory
Apple's official throttling fix
- Macworld's tests
Intel Power Gadget
- Removed, and then reappears
Intel and the Danger of Integration
#askatp:
- Retina screen settings (via Greg Kolodziejczk)
  - Eye Friendly
- What tech opinions do we regret? (via James)
  - Casey's journey to the Mac
  - The iPhone: I'll care later
- John's pasta-sauce recipe (via James Evans)
  - Rao's Vodka Sauce
Post-show: The ~~Spanish~~ Italian food inquisition
- Lidia's lasagna recipe
- The basis for John's "carbonara"

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Posted on 26 July 2018 | 5:40 pm

283: Just Lower Your Standards

Pre-show: Videolog(ue)
Follow-up:
- Patenting the perpetual motion machine
- Pre-2018 MacBook keyboard repairs won't get the 2018 keyboard
"Beware the Core i9"
- Reddit thread
- Marco's tweet
- Thermal design power
- Notebook Check tests the 13"
- CPU data sheets:
  - 13": 2017, 2018
  - 15": 2017, 2018
Apple ends photo printing operation
#askatp:
- Is a dedicated picture machine useful? (via Colton Belfils)
- Does John like Node.js (via Aaron Bushnell)?
  - NPM
  - CPAN
  - Semantic Versioning
  - Camel
- What $15k-or-less car, at least 25 years old, would you buy? (via Gareth Thomas)
Post-show Neutral
- Smart Roadster

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Posted on 19 July 2018 | 3:53 pm

282: Not Unreliable Enough

Follow-up:
- Distributing Marzipan Apps
- Siri is multilingual... until it isn't.
- Window air-conditioner hacks
New MacBook Pros
#askatp:
- Capturing out-of-warranty hardware (via Ali Shah)
- How do I use a 34" monitor? (via Andrew Troup)
- Lost picture troubleshooting for Brian Sturm
Post-show: Let's talk about Europe.

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Posted on 15 July 2018 | 3:23 pm

281: My Private Siri

Home repairs: Window air conditioners
- Frigidaire Gallery quiet window air conditioner
Computer repairs
- Casey repairs Erin's MacBook Air... maybe.
  - Local snapshots maybe?
- Marco's iMac wants to be like Casey's
Follow-up:
- Reporters got to talk to Google Duplex
- A A A A Very Good Song lives on?
- Duplicate-file managers:
  - Gemini 2, also on the App Store (via Gualtiero Frigerio)
  - Photo Sweeper
Mojave LaunchServices can launch flat-style app bundles
Google Home impresses John
Apple Maps is getting a whole lotta love
- Google Maps Moat
- Welcome to Joytown
AirPod (and headphone!) rumors
- Apple In-Ear Headphones
- Sony WH-1000XM2
#askatp
- Mojave and autiomatic dark mode (via Ishan Sharma)
  - tell application "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode
- Back to the... iOS? (via Scott Nourse)
  - Citrix Mouse
- If the Millennium Falcon was a car, what would it be? (via Brent Billings)
Post-show: Neutral

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Posted on 2 July 2018 | 3:50 pm

280: Extinction-Level Event

Follow-up:
- Safari's Allow Unsigned Extensions is not a panacea after all
- Adobe is rethinking things
- Many people have written their own de-dupe apps
  - One example of many
- The long national Music.app default first-alphabetic song nightmare is over
  - A a a a a Very Good Song
Apple launches butterfly-keyboard repair program
- Casey's repair strategy
Marco's new 🏖️💻
- Looking good, buddy.
Marzipan
- Carbon vs. Cocoa
- Gus Mueller's take
- Becky Hansmeyer asks and then answers what makes a Mac app a Mac app?
#askatp
- James Veitch gives us a self-destructing envelope
- Robert Barat wants to know about 4K monitor sizes
  - Bjango's explainer
- Will Law is [justifiably] upset
Post-show: Casey had a falling out with (not of) the Jeep

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Posted on 28 June 2018 | 5:23 pm

279: You’ll Hate What I’m Actually Doing

Accidental Test Kitchen: Induction cooktops
International cellular-data options
- AT&T International Day Pass
- Verizon TravelPass
Follow-up:
- Simulator cloning is fast because of APFS cloning
  - cp -c
- Notarized apps and signing
Marco's 🏖️ setup
- Carrying case
John's reload extension lives thanks to Isaac Halvorson
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- Forecast
- MP3 ID3v2 Chapters spec
More on WWDC
- Memoji are gender neutral
- Password improvements and 1Password
  - Default Folder X
- Xcode 10 no longer compiles 32-bit apps
- Office 365 is now in the app store, as with some Adobe stuff.
- Metal and eGPUs
#askatp
- Slow iOS 12 adoption among teens because of big ~~brother~~ parent? (via Somename)
- Are Kindles worth it over iPads for reading? (via Ashely A)
- What does the alternate Apple-bought-Bungie universe look like? (via joshhunt)
  - Marathon
  - Pathways out of darkness
Post-show: "Casey's" Jeep
- IIHS rating

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Posted on 21 June 2018 | 9:52 pm