Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show: Marco has M6 performance numbers🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon easternThe Marco Offset™Follow-up:John’s mouse pad (via Andy)Rounded corners are, bad, maybe?AirPower… desk? 🤨John’s weird AirPods 5 issuesFinding Intel apps in macOSSystem Settings → General → About → Intel-based AppsLearn more…M5 Ultra Mac Studio GPU scoresNew Mac mini storage...

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon easternThe Marco Offset™Flying Spaghetti MonsterFollow-up:New treatsJohniPhone 18 ProJohn’s caseAirPods 5 with Wireless Charging CaseIP57Dust protectedImmersion, up to 1m, for 30 minutesOdditiesVolume controlMarcoApple Watch S12 CeramicApple Watch S12 bezels are bigger than S10?Mac miniCasey: Apple Watch S12 AluminumHow should...

🗣️ 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 videoComparison videoPreviously, in 2018Making of (via Techzha)Preliminary Geekbench scoresA20 Pro (iPhones 18 Pro)CPUGPUM6CPUGPUM5 UltraCPUiPhone 18 Pro Max & Apple C2Solar phone charging? 🤔 (via flanker)Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and...

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️The Marco Offset™September 2026 eventMacRumors on the cellular chipsSynthID StandardApple Audio Intelligence Privacy OverviewSurface DuoPowerBook DuoRafa’s toot about layoutsApple Developer VideosPost-show: Jetty updateMembers-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s new business terms in the EUBen Thompson’s breakdownGruber’s takeAdrian Weckler at Irish IndependentSponsored...

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️The Marco Offset™Follow-up:Luz fooled me, Jerry!Extremely convincing fake by Daniel LuzMea culpaApple fooled us allSiri blobs fixSystem Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy → Content & Privacy (turn the switch on) → Siri → Writing Assistance (turn the switch off)John is happy with new Macs timetableAre photo libraries on external disks supported?Knowledge...

Pre-show: Marco’s casement windowsScreen clipsScreen clips, installed (white prototypes for visibility)TPU for AMS🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä of the Valley of the WindFollow-up:macOS 27 UI tweaksRedesigned stoplights in β6VideoStoplightsStretchy buttonsVideoPorsche 911, 996 generationIn defense of the fried egg PorschesTurning off the Siri logomacOS 27 got the new Preview...

Pre-show: Marco may have to dance with the devilDaikinHome Assistant integrationHome Assistant GreenFollow-up:The OpenAI doughnutWhat if it’s an eye? (via Elijah Yap)Or perhaps red blood cell shaped? (via Chris Lawrence)Biconcave discTime Capsule was to solve the laptop-backup problemMultiple Apple IDs with the same number (via Adam Wunn)RAMageddonApple gets lower display pricesApple raises...

Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thornLutron Caséta Fan ControlFanimationTechnology Connections videoFollow-up:Marco’s favorite feedback (about Myke) was from Analog(ue) 😬SQLite bug write-upBlackbirdPost-show NeutralProfessional negotiators / “headhunters” are very much a thingCarEdge (via John Siracusa)Delivrd (via Roger Coxon)Wall Street Journal (News+ link)The Car Chick (via Juan Boyce)The #1...

Pre-show: The Overcast “kicking machine”Adam Wunn’s blog postPreviously in ATP #324: Automatic Kicking MachineFollow-up:Marco gives John the gift of transcript search in build #1169 [The system works! — Ed.]Build #1172 includes Siracusa Replay ModeBe wary of Sonos + Pi-hole or other ad blockers (via Will Smidlein)Ubiquiti High AvailabilityRedundant Power Supply USP-RPSSmartPower Cable...

Pre-show: Three old men talk about the Tickety TocksFollow-up:Adam Wunn published his email as a blog postSharing files in Screen Sharing.app (via Ingmar Wittkau)Video game preservation (via Jason Griffey)Supplying power to Marco’s army of Mac minisUbiquiti “Shadow Mode High Availability”An update on Passwords.app “doing the hard thing”macOSiOSMore clipboard changes in macOS 27Video in...