Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show: Casey’s dreams were squashed Ubiquiti Travel Router Verizon Jetpack Marco’s hotspot (newer models exist; check for refurbs, they’re way cheaper than new) Solis Edge Follow-up: The Grim Reaper FiOS CableCARD email came for John TiVo Roamio Pro Casey on Downstream Temporal dithering (via Kyle Foreman) Dagnabbit, the screen count is just too damn high MSI MEG Vision X ( Sc...

Pre-show: Casey has a question for Marco LivePhish Goose on Bandcamp Nugs Thank you, ATP Patrons ! Follow-up: Cord-cutting Casey on Downstream suppose.tv Multi-select in iOS Contacts.app (via many, including Simon Ljungberg ) The Studio Display is $1600 (via Greg Seay ) Quinn’s video on making a 5K display Display flickering (via Stephen Perelson) This started in late 2020 with Big Sur Tempo...

Pre-show: Comply TrueGrip MAX for AirPods Pro 3 Pepperidge Farm Remembers Follow-up: Contacts Contact lists are a thing (via Dayton Lowell) Some non-obvious complications (via Paul) Face ID & Touch ID Older folks really do struggle with Touch ID (via Harrison Krebs & Kurt Schwind ) Strictness (via Rob Sayre) John’s Liquid Glass bug in macOS 26.2 (via Gui Rambo ) Gui’s PR Some m...

Pre-show: Christmas-slideshow time Follow-up: Paris Buttfield-Addison’s locked Apple ID 🇦🇺 ACCC: Consumer Rights & Guarnatees 🇺🇸: Remember when we had a CFPB? Chat math Metadata thread splitting & merging Colin spells it out for us TV Everywhere XMLTV m3u8 IPTV Github Repo 🚨 Proceed with caution 🚨 StreamEast 506 Sports Custom pronunciations in iOS Accessibility → VoiceOver → Speech...

Pre-show: Marco joins team snow tires i3 : 155/70R19 XC90 : 275/40R21 Molex F-150 Lightning’s demise 🗣️ Remember, ATP gift memberships are a thing! 🗣️ New ATP Members Special: ATP Movie Club: WarGames WarGames Follow-up: Some impromptu spoiler-free follow-up about the member’s special John’s Cloudflare update Hypercritical Marco’s former TV (via Wayne Morgan ) Apple executi...

Pre-show: Casey has a giggle about central Virginia snow Follow-up: Apple Fitness+ is doing better than the Mac Pro Workout Buddy Previously with Jay Blahnik More adventures with Cloudflare jramskov ’s observation TLS Certificate lifetimes Alternatively, GitHub Pages Some thoughts from an anonymous Cloudflare employee Workers Pages R2 KV Durable Objects Oops… we broke it Landon’s obser...

Pre-show: Marco has a new toy Follow-up: Vision Pro Light Seal sizes decoded Vision Pro Size Help tool JPEG XL lives… in PDF Chromium ticket jxl-rs : JPEG XL in Rust Chapter links in Apple Podcasts Stephen Robles on The Talk Show Apple documentation ATP on Threads Malicious content delivery on Podcasts.app? 404 Media article Everybody is leaving Apple John Giannandrea to retire from Apple Amar Sub...

Pre-show: Marco bought a new toy ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II Bryan’s toot pen.tips Paperlike 3 Paperlike Pencil Tips Follow-up: macOS Tahoe 26.2 β3 seems to fix Electron slowdown (per shamelectron ) Gurman says “not so fast, my friend” Gaming in ARM Anti-cheat complications (via Tyler ) Windows 11 on ARM (via David Gaw) OpenAI Egg update Interview video Fred T Apple N1...

🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It — 16 October 2023 Follow-up: The origin of “diamond dogs” (via Jared Counts ) Wikipedia Matte, glossy, glass, and nanotexture (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble) Paperlike Rock Paper Pencil Steam Machine EuroGamer article about APU/GPU (via DavidSchaub ) PlayStation...

Follow-up: John has some new Vision Pro treats Flight Ready In the defense of the CD-R (via Jonathan Goforth) ATP Tier List: Storage Media Auto-generated chapters in Apple podcasts We’re dummies: ATP has a [chapter-free] bootleg Some more technical details (via Stephen Robles ) Subscriber audio chapters are a mess New MacBook Pro design is for M6 Pro & Max only? Mark Gurman’s cover...

Pre-show: Casey dropped his 17 Pro 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️ T568A & T568B Idea courtesy Adam Brandon Don’t Stop Believin’… An aside about podcast chapters and Apple’s recent news Follow-up: The current MacBook Pro design is from the M1 (via Ben Mattison ) More dashed Mac Pro dreams Apple’s internal chip codename nomenclature Variants P = A_ G =...

Pre-show: Marco’s airplane neighbors Flighty 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️ T568A & T568B Idea courtesy Adam Brandon Follow-up: Vision Pro Mac Virtual Display On Intel it’s only up to 3K 🤭 (via Thomas Cheng ) Apple Support Tapping-and-holding × allows for hiding other windows (via Nick Anthony) Vision Pro vs. ski goggles Apple 🤝 Vapor Chambers Would...

Pre-show: More people have been infected by Goose 🗣️ New ATP Members ’ Special: ATP Insider: The Restaurant, Season One 🗣️ An aside about outerwear 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️ T568A & T568B Idea courtesy Adam Brandon Follow-up: Recognition corner Casey begs for help Callsheet List bug (FB17661404) is fixed in 26.1 🎉 However, Menu(::primaryAction:) is br...

Follow-up: Languages in Scotland ATP merch has more benefits (via Christian Heiler) Slide Over fade animation (via Daniel Luz ) Marco’s iPhone case survey: Ryan London bare bottom (via Oliver Thomas ) /u/LaughingMan11 is Benson Leung (via Deta & Daniel Luz ) ZFS and the Drobo dream (via Joe) AnyRAID for ZFS Explained for Dummies Hexos announcement An aside for an argument Apple M5 M5 Pro...

Pre-show: Marco’s “Vacation” results Goose Goose @ Richmond Allianz Ampitheater, 3 October 2025 Allianz Ampitheater Chicken Salad Chick Nugs.net ZZQ Suggestions from Casey, in no particular order: Hungersite Give it Time How it Ends Dripfield Follow-up: ATP in the wild Original report form Richard Earney Follow-up by Matt Smith Follow-up on Mark Christian’s report by Santia...

Pre-show: Eh, that’ll keep… M5 iPad Pro FCC leaks 🗣️ St. Jude time is almost done! 🗣️ Supporting Action for Emergency Response Lebanon case study Global crisis repsonse blueprint 🗣️ New ATP Member ’s Special: ATP Dev: Computer Science Curriculum Follow-up: ATP in the wild (via Mark Christian & Richard Earney ) iOS 26.0.1  allegedly fixes N1 Wi-Fi/BT issues CarlinKit wireless C...

Marco’s AppleCare “Express” Replacement 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ The Marco Offset Podcastathon 2025 Follow-up: Auburn ’s colors are UVA ’s colors (via Tony Scida ) You don’t need the trick new Apple charger to charge an iPhone 17 at full speed iPhone Air Why people are buying the iPhone Air / 15” MacBook Air Bending the iPhone Air Apple (via T...

Marco 0️⃣ → 1️⃣ 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ Podcastathon 2025 : Friday, noon → midnight EDT Stephen Hackett said the foldable will be the “iPhone Ultra” μm is a “micron” The iPhone Air battery pack does have a USB-C port after all iPhone 17 Pro requires a new adapter to charge at full speed Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter Anker Nano 45W charger A19 vs. A19 Pro A19...

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ The Marco Offset iPhone event AirPods Pro 3 Apple Watch Series 11 No new System-in-Package? Whoop Band Apple Watch SE 3 Apple Watch Ultra 3 LTPO Satellite can-kicking continues iPhone 17 Memory Integrity Enforcement iPhone Air iPhone Air MagSafe Battery 💔 iPhone 17 Pro & Pro Max Software ship dates Post-show: Apple trade-in ✨ Tina’s dream has come...

Pre-Show: Trouble in Razer paradise 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ The Marco Offset Follow-up: Casey has thoughts about the compact iOS 26 controls in Safari Settings → Apps → Safari Apple device advice for those that are athletically engaged Place your phone face-down (via. A. O.) Sleep focus is an option (via A. M.) So is Theater Mode and, if taps are an issue, water lock (via Ryan) How t...

Pre-Show: Casey and Marco are sad Ben Rice McCarthy Under the Radar Follow-up: 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ The Marco Offset Anonymous crushes the dreams of Marco and Casey about cellular MacBooks Another Anonymous shares a bit too much information about accidental Siri activations 😆 🤬 John’s AppleCare One update 🤬 Help with Trackpad dragging System Settings → Accessibility → Poi...

Pre-Show: AI slop vs. not… so… AI… slop AITAH Follow-up: Casey spends 24 hours with iOS 26 on his carry phone John’s dancing controls ☝️ Well, actually ☝️, myriad of is okay (via Jason Eccles ) Merriam-Webster’s take Are size classes similar to today’s design changes? (via Bryan Guffey) Auto Layout John’s HomePod has risen from the dead! Nic’s Fix Watch John’s a...

Pre-Show: Marco and Casey’s no-good, very bad days. Follow-up: Casey didn’t read the fine print on Express Replacement 🤦🏻‍♂️ Short Pump John cycled his mouse again AppleCare One Moving a device on a payment plan (via “ Clark Griswold ” and Anonymous) Tina’s iPhone Tina’s Mac Studio Tahoe beta 5: checkbox contrast improves iOS 26 beta 6  Liquid glass chang...

Pre-Show: Brief vacation results Tim Cook kisses the… ring Video Follow-up: HDTVTest reviews Sony Bravia 8 II and Panasonic Z95B TV shootout results Nilay’s comments AppleCare One iCareCalculator Reddit post (removed by moderators) iCare Calculator web app John’s experience B&H Casey’s roughly equivalent Mac , available for special order Retro computing corner Revisiting eWor...

Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem Follow-up: D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team Casey’s struggles with iperf3 Tutorial iperf3 -t 60 -c {ip} -P 4 -i 10 -R John’s new toaster and E01 (via J-P Teti & John F.) Chemical vs. physical sunscreen (via Prodan Statev) Research paper Apple security for unreleased devices Low-cost Apple laptop (via Jason Anthony Guy ) Ed: Please d...