Accidental Tech Podcast

01:59:32

711: Hot Dog on an Actuator

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/10/01

Pre-show: Marco has M6 performance numbers🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️ Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern The Marco Offset™ Follow-up: John’s mouse pad (via Andy) Rounded corners are, bad, maybe? AirPower… desk? 🤨 John’s weird AirPods 5 issues Finding Intel apps in macOS System Settings → General → About → Intel-based Apps Learn more… M5 Ultra Mac Studio GPU scores New Mac mini storage caveats 𝓍OS 27 Screen Time woes (Timestamp link to 8m50s) iOS 27 vs

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02:13:17

710: That New Mouse Pad Feeling

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/09/24

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern The Marco Offset™ Flying Spaghetti Monster Follow-up: New treats John iPhone 18 Pro John’s case AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case IP57 Dust protected Immersion, up to 1m, for 30 minutes Oddities Volume control Marco Apple Watch S12 Ceramic Apple Watch S12 bezels are bigger than S10? Mac mini Casey: Apple Watch S12 Aluminum How should Apple have handled iPhone Duo dev tools? (via

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02:07:42

709: Steel-Cable Insurance

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/09/17

🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️ The Marco Offset™ Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video Comparison video Previously, in 2018 Making of (via Techzha) Preliminary Geekbench scores A20 Pro (iPhones 18 Pro) CPU GPU M6 CPU GPU M5 Ultra CPU iPhone 18 Pro Max & Apple C2 Solar phone charging? 🤔 (via flanker) Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and Space Aperture blades on iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max

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03:04:10

708: Primary, Tertiary, and Third Cousin

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/09/10

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️The Marco Offset™ September 2026 event MacRumors on the cellular chips SynthID Standard Apple Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview Surface Duo PowerBook Duo Rafa’s toot about layouts Apple Developer Videos Post-show: Jetty update Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s new business terms in the EU Ben Thompson’s breakdown Gruber’s take Adrian Weckler at Irish Independent Sponsored by: ElevenLabs: AI Customer Support Agents Factor:

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02:05:47

707: Haunting the Campus Like a Ghost

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/09/03

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️The Marco Offset™ Follow-up: Luz fooled me, Jerry! Extremely convincing fake by Daniel Luz Mea culpa Apple fooled us all Siri blobs fix System Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy → Content & Privacy (turn the switch on) → Siri → Writing Assistance (turn the switch off) John is happy with new Macs timetable Are photo libraries on external disks supported? Knowledge base Iris Yankees / Sox in Apple Vision Pro Dithering Motivations for

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02:37:41

706: No One Is Getting a Good Deal Tonight

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/08/27

Pre-show: Marco’s casement windowsScreen clips Screen clips, installed (white prototypes for visibility) TPU for AMS 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind Follow-up: macOS 27 UI tweaks Redesigned stoplights in β6 Video Stoplights Stretchy buttons Video Porsche 911, 996 generation In defense of the fried egg Porsches Turning off the Siri logo macOS 27 got the new Preview icon LLM determinism when temperature = 0 Write-up by

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02:30:22

705: Relentless in a Gentle Way

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/08/20

Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devilDaikin Home Assistant integration Home Assistant Green Follow-up: The OpenAI doughnut What if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap) Or perhaps red blood cell shaped? (via Chris Lawrence) Biconcave disc Time Capsule was to solve the laptop-backup problem Multiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn) RAMageddon Apple gets lower display prices Apple raises trade-in values 🎉 Unforgetful is out! 🎉 E-Mail Addresses That Would

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02:08:25

704: Past the Ternus Horizon

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/08/13

Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thornLutron Caséta Fan Control Fanimation Technology Connections video Follow-up: Marco’s favorite feedback (about Myke) was from Analog(ue) 😬 SQLite bug write-up Blackbird Post-show Neutral Professional negotiators / “headhunters” are very much a thing CarEdge (via John Siracusa) Delivrd (via Roger Coxon) Wall Street Journal (News+ link) The Car Chick (via Juan Boyce) The #1 trusted automotive expert for women and smart men Your

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02:32:25

703: Part of a Healthy Breakfast

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/08/06

Pre-show: The Overcast “kicking machine”Adam Wunn’s blog post Previously in ATP #324: Automatic Kicking Machine Follow-up: Marco gives John the gift of transcript search in build #1169 [The system works! — Ed.] Build #1172 includes Siracusa Replay Mode Be wary of Sonos + Pi-hole or other ad blockers (via Will Smidlein) Ubiquiti High Availability Redundant Power Supply USP-RPS SmartPower Cable USP-Cable “Odd” RAM amounts (via Joe Lion) Multiple Apple

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02:30:45

702: Isolate the Evil

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/07/27

Pre-show: Three old men talk about the Tickety TocksFollow-up: Adam Wunn published his email as a blog post Sharing files in Screen Sharing.app (via Ingmar Wittkau) Video game preservation (via Jason Griffey) Supplying power to Marco’s army of Mac minis Ubiquiti “Shadow Mode High Availability” An update on Passwords.app “doing the hard thing” macOS iOS More clipboard changes in macOS 27 Video in question Apple is reportedly looking to acquire AI chip

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02:10:55

701: I Improved My Town

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/07/23

Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastropheCyberLynk / Mac Mini Vault The dead ATS The proposed replacement 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Tier List: Emoji Follow-up: Member’s Special video trimming / John’s Vibe Coded App LosslessCut Casey has leveled-up his Sonos experience Previously on ATP Version 85.01 announcement post FAQ post Louie Mantia makes the case for Squircle Sony 💔 💿 A nefarious motivation for Sony ceasing to sell games on disc (via Glen Jarvis) CD

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01:56:18

700: A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/07/16

Pre-show: Anniversary Corner! catatp (see also Statistics) Bootleg visualization Follow-up: Public beta check-in Casey’s iMessage notification issue Cache in front of CloudFlare Workers! Apple keeps futzing with rendering of .icon files Mac-assed Mac Apps Steve Troughton-Smith on ChatGPT Gruber #1 Gruber #2 Gus Mueller Gruber Globe key on Apple’s extended keyboards (via Philip Hofstetter) LaunchAgent ~/Library/LaunchAgents Casey’s former keyboard Tina’s

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02:20:29

699: Not the Correct Squircle

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/07/07

Pre-show: Casey’s oops Magic TrackPad Magic Keyboard Marco’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard Follow-up: Casey may have fixed his notification problem! Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart Reardon) RAMAgeddon Feel free to donate to St. Jude any of the money you may have saved by buying early! (via Jonathan) Will Apple rethink unified memory given these prices? (via ShutterAperture) Steam Machine difficulties Interview on YouTube (Timestamp link to 12m48s) Collusion! Well,

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02:13:35

698: And Do What?

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/06/30

Pre-show: Who’s bored? 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps Follow-up: Nugs and Sonos As the prophecy foretold… ☹️ Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t Rumors about Siri AI indexing Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist) Price increases abound! ☹️ On the Apple TV price hike (via Chris Carley) Steam Machine (More) Xbox Micron points fingers at Apple (News+ Link) Steve Troughton-Smith’s take Previously, in Palm Pilots Apple asks Trump to save

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02:06:20

697: The Chart Is Terrifying

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/06/26

Pre-show: Casey has some fantastic news about nugs.net for Marco Marco’s trip report Gucci Osteria Follow-up: John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of Upgrade #624 (also on YouTube) Apple Intelligence 🤝 external boot disks (via Doug Weinfield) Spotlight indexing in 𝑥OS 27 Steve Riggins notes it takes a while Alex concurs Apple’s AI Tech Talk What will Siri be capable of? (via Jochen Marschall) Bootleg video (via sayrer) Is Spatial

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01:59:04

696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/06/15

Pre-show: We are not dangerously capable We convince ourselves not to pivot to video Accidental Neutral: The Rivian R2 FYI, Marco: Casey has officially called dibs on the R3X 😈 Follow-up: It’s Road Trip (via Jason Paul) Indexing for the new Spotlight Passwords app does the hard thing macOS 27 “Golden Gate” was the codename for macOS Big Sur… and eWorld 1.1 Microsoft Bob You can use Touch ID for Administrator access There’s a way to skip the Siri waitlist (via

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02:51:11

695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/06/09

WWDC 2026Watch the Keynote (alternatively, on YouTube) Craig Hockenberry on Spotlight Word wall Rob Rhyne’s toot Weird holes Change Detection .well-known Dear EU, 🖕. Love, Apple Post-show: Casey’s unexpected afternoon Music Video Craig’s toot Tim’s Good Morning video [Alternatively, on Xcancel] TN3212: Adopting gesture recognizers for Sidecar touch support (via Vince) Sam Henri Gold Members-only ATP Overtime: The foldable iPhone takes shape White foldable

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02:19:58

694: Potential and Homework

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/06/04

Pre-show: 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ John and dynamic DNS Former & future sponsor Tailscale (but seriously, I’m obsessed —CL) Tailscale Funnel DynDns.org no-ip.org Follow-up: Ferrari Luce John’s remembered video clip of sandwiching the body (extracted by RG) John’s EV Stupidity Checklist Wassym Bensaid, Chief Software Officer at Rivian, being a dummy Bambu’s battle with its users They were already in hot water (via Steve Riggins) Jose

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02:02:19

693: Negative Bonus Points

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/05/29

Pre-show: Marco has something to commendUbiquiti marketing video Spanning Tree Protocol Sonos & Networking Documentation Follow-up: Formula 1 on Apple TV The case for alarm reminders (via Matthew Cave) SVG can do animations — and way more! (via Vítor) SVG can do THAT‽ Yes, you can use AI for ffmpeg, but have you tried Lossless Cut? SF Symbols in Marco’s Reminder app (via Clarko) How can we bemoan Electron and cheer WebViews? (via Julian Gamble) If Finder moves are no good, are

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02:06:41

692: A Thinking Hitch

Accidental Tech Podcast ·

2026/05/21

Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness Follow-up: Cut/copy/paste in Finder Terminal John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes tcsh John’s Terminal settings Window tab John’s Terminal settings Tab tab Escape sequence extended tooltip .cshrc Terminal apps for macOS with text-based config files Fancy shell prompts like Starship KornShell Some other terminal resources The Linux Field

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