698: And Do What?

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   E703 · 6 Aug 2026 · 2 hr 32 min

   703: Part of a Healthy Breakfast

   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 accounts (via TJ Usiyan) Some science about Sony’s axe of PlayStation discs SuperDuper 4 Previously in the SuperDuper blog… Apple Upgrade…

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   E702 · 27 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 31 min

   702: Isolate the Evil

   Pre-show: Three old men talk about the Tickety Tocks Follow-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 companies P. A. Semi Apple is actually spending money on Broadcom Hartley Charlton at MacRumors Slate Truck price & availability announced…

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   E701 · 23 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 11 min

   701: I Improved My Town

   Pre-show: Marco’s Mac mini catastrophe CyberLynk / 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 sales are going up Price increase corner: Apple Music edition Chart by BasicAppleGuy AppleCare+ too FileMaker In defense… CVE…

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   E700 · 16 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 56 min

   700: A Wet Dishrag Full of Lies

   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 keyboard: MMMR3LL/A Shouldn’t the Studio Display get a price bump? (via Brian Nehring ) Regarding skipping M6 Pro/Max/Ultra (via…

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   E699 · 7 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 20 min

   699: Not the Correct Squircle

   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, maybe . Would a gold Mac mini be cheaper than a spec with tons of RAM? Awax did math We’re Fable is so back, baby More at Ars…

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   E697 · 26 Jun 2026 · 2 hr 6 min

   697: The Chart Is Terrifying

   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 Reframing in 𝑥OS 27 geographically-aware? (via Kevin Buterbaugh) Tesla 🤝 CarPlay? New CarPlay features (via Alec Hurdle) WWDC…

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   E696 · 15 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 59 min

   696: It Seems Petty, But I Endorse It

   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 Steve Troughton-Smith ) sudo defaults write "/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/GenerativeModels.plist" "EnhancedSiriWaitlist"…

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   E695 · 9 Jun 2026 · 2 hr 51 min

   695: The Crystal Pepsi of Aqua

   WWDC 2026 Watch 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 phone More details Sonny Dickson’s images [Alternatively, on Xcancel ] Case leaks Sponsored by: Squarespace : Save 10% off your first…

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   E694 · 4 Jun 2026 · 2 hr 20 min

   694: Potential and Homework

   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 agrees Faking alarm reminders (via Ben Smith ) Moving files between volumes Steven Op de beeck demonstrates this with a tiny file and a large file…

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    E693 · 29 May 2026 · 2 hr 2 min

    693: Negative Bonus Points

    Pre-show: Marco has something to commend Ubiquiti 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 WebView s? (via Julian Gamble) If Finder moves are no good, are mv s the same? Defrag lives on …in APFS diskutil apfs defragment [disk] enable [disk] is something along the…