Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show: Snowpocalypse update

Follow-up:

atp.fm passkey update

Google Private AI Compute

Apple 🤝🏻 Google Cloud

Removing copy/paste crud (via rauli)

Screen on RAM

ASUS improves color accuracy for Mac users (via Oliver Thomas)

Modular headphones

AIAIAI (via Graham Dobie)

Tyler H’s review of the Fender Mix and Fairphone Fairbuds

Window management in macOS (via Ben)

FlashSpace

AltTab

New AirTags

The chime has changed from F → G

Apple hosting LA event

Invite image

Jason’s Creator Studio review

TCL has bought Sony’s TV business

TCL Super Quantum Dot

TCL X11L

John Ternus takes over design at Apple

Sebastiaan de With → Apple

Who makes design decisions at Apple, anyway?

Post-show:

We stand with Minnesotans.

Apple employee reaction to Tim Cook

Tim’s internal memo

Tim’s letter after George Floyd

Gruber on Tim’s letter

Gruber on language

CRDT

John’s new bff

XKCD #974: Pass the salt

Members-only ATP Overtime: TikTok in the US is under new ownership… for real this time

Congress is unsure if it complies with law

Are content moderation changes afoot?

More data slurping definitely is

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Pre-show: Snowpocalypse is coming for Casey

🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Automotive Logos 🗣️

Follow-up:

We’ll talk TCL/Sony next week!

Gruber’s post

Top Dogs is coming

“Cloud technology”?

Google’s blog post

Gurman’s post

Clipboard hijacking

It’s an Apple thing

No, really

Indonesia is not small

MainStage is not new (via Mike Taffet et al)

Interview

Apple’s Pro Apps Bundle still exists for education users (via Pekka Salonen)

Pro apps free trials

Prior art (via Karoline)

The trials are full versions (via Ian Robinson)

Monitors at CES

DisplayPort alternate mode for USB-C

What about color accuracy?

Extended Display Identification Data

ProMotion in Safari

iOS: Settings → Apps → Safari → Advanced → Feature Flags

Test

Vision Pro does have Keynote

Icons in Tahoe menus

Nikita Prokopov

Jim Nielsen

Colin M. Ford (and an explanation)

Apple’s guidelines

You don’t have bad aim; it’s Tahoe

How to prevent Tahoe update nags

Many Tricks

Device management profiles

Actually it’s a bug 🤭

Ask ATP:

Was Alan Dye a better or worse steward of software design that Jony Ive? (via Austin)

Will Alan Dye’s departure effect a touchscreen MacBook Pro? (via Tom Armstrong)

What is our favorite macOS style? (via Nate)

macOS Screenshot Library

Post-show: John’s migration continues

John’s Fastmail referral link

Cron

Namecheap

Cloudflare

Claude Code

MiniDV

StatusBoard

Grafana

Prometheus

CandyBar

Members-only ATP Overtime: Fender’s first wireless headphones

The Verge coverage

Demo video

Sony WH-1000XM6

Auracast

Wikipedia

Sony MDR-7506

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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 (Screen grab)

MSI Lightning RTX 5090 (Screen grab)

Wi-Fi channel selection & size

Wi-Fi 7 8

A tour of Apple- (or John-) relevant monitors from CES

As a reminder…

Apple Studio Display

Pro Display HDR

MSI MPG 271KRAW16

DisplayHDR 1400 certification

MSI MAG 271KPD7

Monitors Unboxed

ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM (Photo)

HDTVTest

Subpixel arrangements

Apple Creator Studio

Icons over time

Photomator lives on… for now (via Chris Welch)

MacRumors

Apple’s defense of the icons

Jason on iWork freemium

Apple 🤝🏻 Google

More from The Information

Chase to become the new issuer of Apple Card

FAQ

Back story on the Wall Street Journal (Apple News)

Post-show: NBA Immersive

Stratechery

Dithering

Members-only ATP Overtime: The continuing disaster at Twitter

Elizabeth Lopatto: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Dan Moren: Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store

Bloomburg: Musk’s Grok AI blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia over sexual images

Robert Hart & Jess Weatherbed: X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK

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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

Temporal dithering (AKA Frame rate control)

Stillcolor to disable temporal dithering on macOS

BetterDisplay for turning on and off GPU dithering

Docs

PlayStation Portal

…works with PlayStation Plus

…but really needs solid Wi-Fi

…and doesn’t support Wi-Fi 6

…and requires wired or first-party Bluetooth headphones

Double-tap title bar to Fill (via Chirag Desai)

Knowedge base

System Settings → Desktop & Dock → Window title bar double-click action → Fill

Wi-Fi 7

Ubiquiti’s Wi-Fi 7 implementation is not great (via Reid)

WPA3

WPA3 is not well supported (via USB Type-Steve)

Alternatively, try band steering (via Patch)

Wi-Fi Pro Abraham Vegh weighs in

…as does pro Saul Sutherland

John’s Eero Max 7 setup

Thread vs. Matter

Thread

Matter

Derek Seaman’s series

To run Matter in HA, you need a separate container

Apple Fitness+ and Quitter’s Day

Bodi

ASML & TSMC

Extreme ultraviolet lithography

Veritasium: The Ridiculous Engineering of the World’s Most Important Machine

Asianometry: ASML: TSMC’s Critical Supplier, Explained

TSMC Analysis playlist

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

Tech stuff we’re looking forward to in 2026

Gartner hype cycle

The Trow of Disillusionment

Post-show: Casey bought something silly

Quinn’s video

GL i.Net

/r/ubiquiti

Teleport

Extremely dodgy firmware upgrade approach

Portainer

Members-only ATP Overtime: Strange form factor rumors for forthcoming iPhones

The Information

MacRumors

Mockup image & video

Jason’s & Stepen’s posts

iPhone fold display quietly debuted at CES?

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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 more about Podcasts.app and background execution (also from Gui)

FB17228659

Developer Technical Support

RAM shortage

Verge article

Micron’s forthcoming fabs

Hynix’s approach

…and forthcoming fabs

Samsung’s approach

Thru-Silicon

The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-tacular

Data portability

Git

Github will still sink its talons into you (via Simon Jodet)

Xcode 🤝 Git (via Tom Hartnett)

Android ↔ iOS

Display flicker in Tahoe

What does this even mean? (via Daniel)

One theory (via Sean Santry)

Some corroboration (via Philip Hofstetter)

Wi-Fi 7 is a bust

-protonsandneutrons-

Playstation Portal

Ask ATP:

What’s the difference between minimizing and hiding windows on macOS? (via Michael Krewson)

Post-show: What the heck is the deal with Thread/Matter

Home Assistant

Nanoleaf Smart String Lights

Lutron Caséta (former sponsor)

YoLink

Members-only ATP Overtime: iMac Pro… phoenix?

Previous code name discussion

Jason on Apple’s display strategy

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