Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Love Batteries
- Follow-up:
- Accommodating hearing loss (via “Phredd Phlinstone”)
Settings→Accessibility→Audio/Visual→Headphone Accommodations→Audiogram- Example app from Maciej
- Big Sur Update
- Apple guidance on SMC reset via Tom Bridge
- Nintendo Famicom had a microphone built into the second controller
- PS5 controller weight and “following” games
- The galaxy’s largest black hole
sysdiagnose- Profiles and Logs
- Stack trace
- Casey’s MMS bugs FB8893003, FB8952395
- John’s bug FB8711530
- Accommodating hearing loss (via “Phredd Phlinstone”)
- Marco Equipment Update
- A brief
#askatpinterlude- How does Marco sell his unwanted computers? (via Brian)
- Marco’s other Christmas gift
- Post-show: New Liss
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Are My Instructions Not Clear?
- Follow-up:
- Casey’s MMS problems and Apple’s bug-reporting black hole (FB8893003, FB8952395)
sysdiagnoseSettings→Privacy→Analytics & Improvements→Analytics Data
- More on Fitness+
- HDR photos
Settings→Photos→View Full HDR
- Screen brightness
- iPhone 12: 625 nits typically / 1200 nits max
- iPhone 12 Pro: 800 / 1200
displaymate.comindicates 825 nits in full-white image
- iCloud Photo Downloader (via Matthew Smith)
- OWC Thunderbolt Hub requires Big Sur 11.1
- Big Sur Update
- AirPods Max audio settings (via Matthew Taylor)
Settings→Accessibility→Audio/Visual→Headphone AccomodationsTune Audio for Brightness, Strong
- AirPods Max “fat lightning” connector
- AirPods Max Shield Case
- John’s iPhone 12 Pro case
- The ghost of Marco’s computing past
- Casey’s MMS problems and Apple’s bug-reporting black hole (FB8893003, FB8952395)
- The ghost of Marco’s computing future
- Siracusa’s Playstation 5 review
- Marco’s Christmas gift
- Post-show: More on the PS5
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Are My Instructions Not Clear?
- Follow-up:
- Casey’s MMS problems and Apple’s bug-reporting black hole (FB8893003, FB8952395)
sysdiagnoseSettings→Privacy→Analytics & Improvements→Analytics Data
- More on Fitness+
- HDR photos
Settings→Photos→View Full HDR
- Screen brightness
- iPhone 12: 625 nits typically / 1200 nits max
- iPhone 12 Pro: 800 / 1200
displaymate.comindicates 825 nits in full-white image
- iCloud Photo Downloader (via Matthew Smith)
- OWC Thunderbolt Hub requires Big Sur 11.1
- Big Sur Update
- AirPods Max audio settings (via Matthew Taylor)
Settings→Accessibility→Audio/Visual→Headphone AccomodationsTune Audio for Brightness, Strong
- AirPods Max “fat lightning” connector
- AirPods Max Shield Case
- John’s iPhone 12 Pro case
- The ghost of Marco’s computing past
- Casey’s MMS problems and Apple’s bug-reporting black hole (FB8893003, FB8952395)
- The ghost of Marco’s computing future
- Siracusa’s Playstation 5 review
- Marco’s Christmas gift
- Post-show: More on the PS5
Sponsored by:
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The Comfort Is Killing Me
- Pre-show: Living the M1 lifestyle
- Follow-up:
- AirPods Max
- Battery situation (via Barney)
- Smart Case ∆s
- Turns out, like the Pro Display XDR, the LG UltraFine 5K does have a fan. (via Joseph Duffy)
- Also, it has been revised in the past.
- Tinus’s tweet
- Chrome bug report and comments
- Jonathan Dietz continues to school us on chip packaging
- …and Thunderbolt hubs/controllers
- AirPods Max
- Casey has tried Apple Fitness+
- All three of us are having dangerous thoughts
#askatp- Why do HDR videos look so great but HDR photos… not? (via Chris Lenart)
- Is there a way to prevent an application from stealing focus in macOS? (via Wes Chamness)
- What’s the best way to back up your iCloud Photo Library if it can’t fit on your Mac?
- Post-show: Living the M1 lifestyle (reprise)
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The Comfort Is Killing Me
- Pre-show: Living the M1 lifestyle
- Follow-up:
- AirPods Max
- Battery situation (via Barney)
- Smart Case ∆s
- Turns out, like the Pro Display XDR, the LG UltraFine 5K does have a fan. (via Joseph Duffy)
- Also, it has been revised in the past.
- Tinus’s tweet
- Chrome bug report and comments
- Jonathan Dietz continues to school us on chip packaging
- …and Thunderbolt hubs/controllers
- AirPods Max
- Casey has tried Apple Fitness+
- All three of us are having dangerous thoughts
#askatp- Why do HDR videos look so great but HDR photos… not? (via Chris Lenart)
- Is there a way to prevent an application from stealing focus in macOS? (via Wes Chamness)
- What’s the best way to back up your iCloud Photo Library if it can’t fit on your Mac?
- Post-show: Living the M1 lifestyle (reprise)
Sponsored by:
- Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $100 credit.
- Flatfile: Check out the full 2020 State of Data Onboarding report.
- ExpressVPN: The fastest and most reliable VPN. Get an extra three months free with a 1-year package.
Become a member for ad-free episodes and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!