612: Screen on Face

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 136 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Pre-show: Politics later.
- #195: The Show Must Go On (Overcast link)
🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by 17 November!
Follow-up:
- Mac mini
  - Headphone jack placement
  - Quinn’s observation
    - Cruical 32GB DIMM
    - Samsung SSD
- iMac
  - Apple removes color-matched pointing devices option
- M4 vs. M4 Pro/Max SSD limits
- M4 Pro & M4 Max performance
- Walmart still sells a Mac with 8GB RAM
- Apple’s new USB-C Accessories require Sequoia
- Apple’s $69 Thunderbolt 5 cable (via Daniel Luz)
- There exists at least one dock with 10GbE (via Daniel Nelson)
- iFixIt’s iPad Mini (A17 Pro) teardown
- AppleTV gaming (via killvore)
- Keyboard Cleaning & MacBook Booting
  - CleanupBuddy by Gui Rambo
  - Alternative incantation from Daniel Pieper
    - Power the machine off
    - Left ⌃ and ⌘ as well as Right ⇧ for 7 seconds
    - While still holding, hold the power button for 7 seconds
    - This is not an SMC reset, but it’s close.
    - Only lasts until the next boot 😑
Apple buys Pixelmator
Apple buys stake in Globalstar
- Press release
- Globalstar
Vision Pro v2 changes?
- Ming-Chi Quo
- Mark Gurman
Post-show: Group therapy
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence experiences
- Photo cleanup shoot-out by Joe Rosensteel

Transcript

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0:00.0	As we're recording this, this is the day after election day.
0:03.9	We just got Trump for a second term.
0:06.4	None of us are happy.
0:08.5	We're going to save our, you know, sadness and wallowing and feelings about that for the aftershow.
0:15.7	So we're going to do a regular show.
0:17.3	You know, you can go back and listen to our episode in November 2016, titled
0:24.1	The Show Must Go On, where we said something very similar, and we're going to do something, I think,
0:29.4	very sadly similar. But, you know, the show must go on. We're going to try to have this be,
0:35.7	again, our regular computer tech show, because
0:38.7	in challenging times, people need normalcy from wherever they can get it. So here we are.
0:44.9	We talk about tech now, and we will talk about our feelings about the election in the after
0:49.0	show. With that in mind, let's talk about something that I think we can all agree is pretty
0:53.6	awesome, and that is the ATP holiday store.
0:57.0	You can go to ATP.fm slash store and you can see all sorts of absolutely awesome merchandise.
1:03.4	We've got M4 shirts.
1:04.8	We've got M4 Pro shirts.
1:07.0	M4 Max shirts.
1:08.4	We've got monochrome colors.
1:10.5	We've got monochrome comma, colors, comma, that all kind of ran together. We've got monochrome colors. Well, you can have monochrome colors as long as it's singular colors each. Like that, that is a thing. Yes, exactly. But anyways, we've got all sorts of different shirts that you can put these on. We've got tanks. We've got T's. We've got long sleeve. We've got all sorts of different shirts that you can put these on.
1:27.7	We've got tanks.
1:28.5	We've got T's.
1:29.2	We've got long sleeve.
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