It’s Not What Young People Do

Accidental Tech Podcast

Follow-up:
- Overcast & Transcriptions
  - Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
  - What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
  - What is Marco using for a job queue? Perhaps Faktory? (via Drew Stephenson)
    - beanstalkd
    - Ansible
  - Monitoring & control interface
  - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of the minis… (via Aaron Dippner)
  - Mac fleet management advice
    - Apple Business
- AirPods Max popularity in New York
WWDC 2026 Announced
Ask ATP
- What’s the deal with passkeys, anyway? (via Phillip Miller)
  - XKCD
- Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via Jon Fabritius)
- Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton)
  - Michael Cook’s contrary opinion
Post-show: Casey is continuing to quiet quit his Synology
Members-only ATP Overtime: How Apple will add touch support to macOS

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I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug

Accidental Tech Podcast

Follow-up:
- You’re welcome, world
- Formula 1
  - A brief, renewed pitch to watch this season
  - Cameras
    - Are not a large portion of the coverage (via Matt Rigby)
    - Failures don’t [usually] matter (via The Racing Line)
      - Great camera overview video
  - The other perk of in-car footage (via Eric Fox)
  - On getting Sky Sports replays (via Brendan Webb)
- Rosetta
  - A deep dive from Colin McKellar
  - Instant Final Cut Pro deprecation warning (via Tom Obarski)
- iPhone 17e teardown
- MacBook Neo
  - Gruber on the camera & mic on-screen indicators
    - Apple Platform Security Guide
    - On Apple Exclaves (Medium link)
  - CPU benchmark correction (via Philipp Sommer)
  - SSD benchmarks (via Vito Traino)
  - John’s and Marco’s hands-on impressions
  - Teardowns
    - Tech Re-Nu
    - iFixIt
      - Video
      - Blog post
AirPods Max 2
- Newsroom
- John wins the bet (Overcast timestamp link)
- Apple’s compare page
Overcast beta now has transcripts!
Post-show Neutral: BMW i3 Revealed
- The Verge
- Ars Technica
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s 27 OSes and Liquid Glass
- Gurman on 15 February
- Gurman on 15 March

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Medium Core

Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner
- Related episode of ATP
Follow-up:
- An explanation for John’s post that broke containment (via Thomas Dickson)
- MacBook Neo
  - John’s theory about color & clamshells
  - The M1 MacBook Air was American Walmarts only. (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
    - Aside also via P-L: does the Neo run Rosetta 2?
  - MacBook Neo inputs 🤝 iPad Air inputs (via Andrew Larson)
  - SSD speeds (via The Verge)
  - The  logo
    - iPhone 5 intro video is what John was thinking of (via Peter Puleio)
    - Jason’s review
  - Dave2D’s review
  - Teardown
  - Tyler Stalman on the Neo running “pro” apps
- Performance Cores vs. Super Cores
  - New in Xcode 24.6β3: CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA (H17S) (via Brendan Shanks)
    - H17S is the missing M5 Pro identifier from iOS 26.3 RC
  - Quinn’s review
    - M5 Pro & Max are on N3P; M5 is N3E
    - Baidu leakers
      - Super cores (“P-Core”)
        
        4.61 GHz
        
        10-wide decoding
      - Performance cores (“M-Core”)
        
        4.38 GHz
        
        7-wide decoding
        
        ~70% the performance of a Super Core
        
        Dual operating mode from efficiency cores
      - Efficiency cores (“E-Core”)
        
        3.05 GHz
        
        6-wide decoding
  - Andrew Cunningham at Ars
    - L2 cache
      - Super: 16 MB
      - Performance: 8 MB
      - Efficiency: 6MB
    - Minimum clock speed:
      - Super: 1,308 MHz
      - Performance: 1,344 MHz
      - Efficiency: 972 MHz
  - Fusion architecture (via Frederic_Orange)
- MacBook Pro Storage pricing (via Richard Allen)
- MacBook keyboard glyphs (via Dan Moren)
- Environmental progress (via Andrew Leahey)
  - TOSTracker
  - Example individual comparison
- Third-party displays (via Dan Boyle)
- Pro Display XDR or Studio Display XDR? (asked by Imthaz)
- Studio Display XDR
  - UFO Test
  - MKBHD’s review states it has 12 GB RAM 🤭
  - Studio Display XDR white paper (PDF) (via Kevin Sliech)
    - Superwide viewing angle
    - Timing controller (TCON)
    - Calibration
    - Display optimization modes
Formula 1 news
- Drive to Survive (Apple TV link)
- Dad jokey-est promo video (Also on YouTube)
- 2026 season preview
- F1TV vs. Apple TV
  - Link accounts
- Romain Grosjean’s
Samsung Galaxy S26 Privacy Display
- MKBHD
- The Verge
Post-show: Marco’s Garmin adventures
Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of x86_64 on macOS
- Tahoe 26.4 warnings
- Slightly more detail from Ars Technica

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The Price of Your Nightmares

Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show: The best (but slowest) website on the internet
- Million Dollar Homepage
- 2013 BMW M5 (PDF)
- 2014 Honda Accord (PDF)
M4 iPad Air
iPhone 17e
New displays (‼️)
- Studio Display 2
  - A19 per MacRumors
  - Some excellent throwback snark from Jack Wellborn
- Studio Display XDR
  - Day-one software update
  - Mac support
    - 120Hz-worthy Macs
M5 MacBook Air
- No change in RAM upgrade pricing?
M5 Pro & M5 Max
- Efficiency cores still exist
M5 Pro & M5 Max MacBook Pros
- If you squint, a 64GB MBP got cheaper
MacBook Neo
Post-show: John had a post break containment
- Context collapse
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s video podcast experience

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A Lot of Holes in That Cheese

Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow ~~blows~~ woes
- TruFuel
Follow-up:
- Casey got the CableCARD email 😭
- YoLink alternatives (via Joe)
- House batteries & V2H/V2L (via Russel Prouse)
  - F-150 Lightning
- On the value of M𝑥 Pro processors (via Rick Baumhauer)
- Tahoe window resizing workaround (via Nathan Manceaux-Panot)
  - defaults write -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize 8
  - defaults delete -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize
- macOS document model
  - …was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7
  - …and noted in the beginning of the Mac OS X 10.8 review
  - Final Cut Pro X does auto-save (via Ian Robinson)
    - Technical details (via Videoalex)
  - Microsoft Office 365 also auto-saves onto OneDrive in Windows (via Éric)
  - Saving files in Xcode (via Alex Kent)
  - Returning to Save As… (via Eric deRuiter)
    - System Settings
      - Desktop & Dock → disable Close windows when quitting an application
      - Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts create an entry under All Applications for Save As… (using an ellipsis by typing ⌥ ;) and assign it to ⌘⇧S
  - Notepad++ (via Emily Campbell)
- Alternative to Due (via Patrick Dumontel)
  - GoodTask
Apple March 4 “experience”
- MacRumors’ roundup of low-cost MacBook limitations
Apple to manufacture some Mac minis in the US
Ask ATP:
- What are our current home & lock screens? (via Sagar Patel)
  - ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen
  - John: lock & home
  - Casey: lock & home
    - Indigo
    - Croissant
  - Marco: lock & home
- What’s our current desktop headphone setup? (via ziplyne)
  - Overtime on ATP #675
  - Casey
    - AirPods Pro 3
    - Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 32Ω
    - Desktop speakers
      - Sonos Era 100 × 2
      - Sonos Sub Mini
      - Sonos Combo Adapter
  - John:
  - Marco:
    - Podcasting
      - Beyerdynamic DT775 Pro 250Ω
      - Beyerdynamic EDT1770D Earpads
      - Schiit Jotunheim 2 (an older model; current is Jotunheim 3)
    - Music
      - HifiMan HE6
    - Speakers
      - KEF Q150 / LSX II & KC62
      - Amp for Q150: Fosi Audio BT30D
Post-show: Casey’s driven more cars
- BMW i4 M50
- Audi e-tron GT
Members-only ATP Overtime: Skill shortages, Apple Silicon, and AI
- Empowering the Next Wave of Silicon Engineers
- Gell-Mann amnesia effect

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Reading List

It’s Not What Young People Do

I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug

Medium Core

The Price of Your Nightmares

A Lot of Holes in That Cheese