423: Fort of HomePods

03/25/21 • 116 min

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What would it take to get Marco into a concert?
Follow-up:
- Tesla Wheel of Shame
  - Hong Kong (via Cilver Aullet)
  - DC (via TG Cid)
  - Houston (via Aaron Farnham)
- App Store Pricing Policing (via Tim)
- Games and Notarization
  - On Apple’s Piss-Poor Documentation
- HomePod follow-up
Some Membership Housekeeping
- Refunds for a very small group of you! 💰
- ATP Membership can be paid in 💶 or 💷! 💸
- ATP’s mid-year 👕 (& more!) are coming soon! 🤑
Mac OS X 10.0 is 20 years old today!
- John’s reviews & retrospectives
- robots.txt
Google Play Drops Commissions 30% → 15% for first $1M in revenue
- Marginal tax rate
#askatp
- When did photos become more than just files? (via Matt Fenselau)
- What’s up with Apple’s awful user experience with OS updates? (via Dan Young)
  - Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
  - Comparing Update Sizes from Mojave to Big Sur
- How would we wire our houses if we could do it all over again? (via Matt Youens)
  - Cat6
  - Ubiquiti
    - Dream Machine
Post-show Neutral:
- Casey’s new dongle

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What would it take to get Marco into a concert?
Follow-up:
- Tesla Wheel of Shame
  - Hong Kong (via Cilver Aullet)
  - DC (via TG Cid)
  - Houston (via Aaron Farnham)
- App Store Pricing Policing (via Tim)
- Games and Notarization
  - On Apple’s Piss-Poor Documentation
- HomePod follow-up
Some Membership Housekeeping
- Refunds for a very small group of you! 💰
- ATP Membership can be paid in 💶 or 💷! 💸
- ATP’s mid-year 👕 (& more!) are coming soon! 🤑
Mac OS X 10.0 is 20 years old today!
- John’s reviews & retrospectives
- robots.txt
Google Play Drops Commissions 30% → 15% for first $1M in revenue
- Marginal tax rate
#askatp
- When did photos become more than just files? (via Matt Fenselau)
- What’s up with Apple’s awful user experience with OS updates? (via Dan Young)
  - Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
  - Comparing Update Sizes from Mojave to Big Sur
- How would we wire our houses if we could do it all over again? (via Matt Youens)
  - Cat6
  - Ubiquiti
    - Dream Machine
Post-show Neutral:
- Casey’s new dongle

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Neutral:
- The Wheel(s) of ShameTM
- ProClip USA MagSafe holder
- Tesla Model Y vs. Ford Mach-E
- Tesla Model Y
- Ford Mach-E
Follow-up:
- Clubhouse no longer requires contacts access
- Apple/ARM/TSMC
  - Long writeup (via Marc Kagan)
  - Fabricators
  - RISC vs. CISC
- Family photo sharing clarifications
- Moving your data around
  - privacy.apple.com (via Ezekiel Elin)
  - Data Transfer Project (via Igor Makarov)
    - Adapters
    - Verge write-up
  - Got Your Back (via Hung Nguyen)
    - GAM
    - The Horcrux
- Why the iMac Pro was discontinued (via Sören)
  - Skylake-X and Skylake Xeon-W Discontinued
RIP HomePod
- iPod Hi-Fi
- AnyList
#askatp
- Why aren’t there more background notifications from apps that aren’t running? (via Nathanael Mol)
- Why does Overcast do processing server-side? (via Michael Hellwig)
- How much of iOS is still macOS? (via Surabh Kulkarni)
Post-show: iMac Color Rumor

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Pre-show:
- Read-only Tweetbot
- WatchConnectivity
Follow-up:
- [More] Tesla wheels of shame
  - Belvedere, CA via Alistair Logie
- AirPods Max warranty repairs (via Harrison Krebs)
WWDC 2021 Announced
- NSRunningApplication Radar Numbers
  - 48190148
  - 25521354
  - 22088473
  - 18980463
  - 21253274
  - 18890642
New Siri Default Voices
- Sample Recording
- Another Sample Recording
Ubiquiti Breach
- An aside about cryptocurrency
- Air gap
- eero
- pfSense
  - Their recent “whoopsies”
John’s Networking Situation
#askatp
- Should one use a non-administrator user account? (via Michael)
- How do I mash together 400 video clips into one file? (via Duncan Wilcock)
  - ffmpeg
  - Casey’s primer on ffmpeg
  - In short:
    - Create a file that refers to all 400 file names. Call it, say, files.txt
    - Each line of that file reads file 1.mp4, file 2.mp4, etc. One file per line.
    - Maybe something like this? ffmpeg -f concat -i files.txt -vf scale=4096:2160 three-hour-movie.mp4
- How does Overcast scrape iTunes? (via Brandon Wees)
  - SOAP
Post-show:
- Bell follow-up

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