Accidental Tech Podcast

711: Hot Dog on an Actuator

Accidental Tech Podcast

Show Notes

Pre-show: Marco has M6 performance numbers

🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️

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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. Pi-hole

dazfuller

Aaron Vegh

GM vs. CarPlay

Casey’s blog post

Casey’s mea culpa

Wait, just kidding

Apple Watch is listening…

Steve Riggins

What about “Hey, Siri”?

Nick Heer

MKBHD

Ask ATP:

What’s the highest mileage we’ve ever gotten to in a car? (via Elliot)

Saturn SL2

Nissan 300ZX

Nissan Maxima

Volvo 200 series

Honda Civic fifth-gen

Porsche IMS bearings

BMW VANOS

What is John going to do to deal with Gmail policy changes? (via Mark Bramhill)

Would Apple reuse the 2019 design for a phantom new Mac Pro? (via Ben Cooper)

Post-show: Casey tries to hack his car

Home Assistant

Wireshark

Charles Proxy

MQTT

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Digital Hub strategy (Timestamp link to 1h29m46s)

Intelligent personal hub

Gurman

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