Aliens Land Here
Richard Kalling, Mark El-Wakil
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S3E01: A Perfectly Safe and Legal Speed
Aliens Land Here
09/10/19 • 112 min
Mark and Richard talk about Mark trying out the Oculus Quest, Richard’s MacBook Pro Repair Experience, Mark’s new P100D and Richard’s Cross Country U-Haul Trip.
Opening
Trying Out the Oculus Quest
- Job Simulator
- Vader Immortal
- BeatSaber
- Will it Blend
- "You must unlearn what you have learned"
- Walking across a whole Minecraft map
Userspace Drivers in Catalina
ThinkGeek going away
Richard's Macbook Repair Experience
- All the people who want Apple to have a loaner computer program
- It’s time to switch your Mac backups from Time Capsule to Time Machine volumes
- Apple slashes prices on Mac storage upgrades
Mark Gets a P100D
- Tesla Offers Free Ludicrous Speed
- Tesla brings back Free Unlimited Supercharging again to sell inventory cars
- Tesla Brings Back Free Supercharging in Attempt to Boost Model S and Model X Sales
- Tesla updates pricing and options across lineup, discontinues several variants
- Center console Tesla includes by default
- Tesla Fart Mode
- Beach Buggy Racing 2
- Cuphead coming in v10
- Podcast Listener Roberto
- Supercharger v3 differences
- Osborne Effect (not Sinclair Effect)
- Tesla’s Dumb Connection Dock
- Model S Skyline Adapter
- 2019 Mercedes E-Series
- Electric Vehicle Warning Sounds
Richard Drives a U-Haul
S2E20: Nested Spoilers
Aliens Land Here
06/27/19 • 74 min
Mark and Richard talk about Panic’s Playdate, Google Merging with Nest, 3d Touch with a lengthy aftershow talking about Star Trek, Game of Thrones and Westworld.
Followup
- Scroll - There are performance increases with scroll!
- Ads are bogging down the web
- Anki is going out of business 😟
- Doppler Labs - Here Ones (shuts down)
Panic's Playdate
- Firewatch, Coda, Transmit
- NO! NO GOD PLEASE NO! NOOOO!!!!
- Less space than a nomad, lame
- Information about the original game boy
- Untitled Goose Game
Google Merging with Nest
- Google’s Nest changes risk making the smart home a little dumber
- Thessa
- Nest does not have homekit support yet
- Homekit authentication in software
- if this then that
- Ecobee 4 and the new Ecobee Smart Thermostat
- Air conditioners and fan speeds
- Icomfort S30 - An expensive smart thermostat that works with Lennox units
- (We love you Kushal!)
Rumors about 3d touch going away
- iOS 13 is the beginning of the end of 3D Touch
- Everybody mispronounces the iPhone XS / XR
- How to enable right click on a mac
- The fundamental problem with Apple’s Touchbar
- Why to buy an iPhone XS over an XR
- The iMac hockey puck
Aftershow - Star Trek and Engineering
S2E19: TSA Pre ✓ for News
Aliens Land Here
05/24/19 • 70 min
Mark and Richard speak with Scroll CTO Kushal Dave. They talk about Scroll and the Macbook Pro refresh. Richard gives his initial impressions of the Oculus Quest.
Scroll
- Learn about Scroll
- Scroll Partners
- Scroll on Twitter (Hi Tony!)
- Scroll Blog
- 3rd party cookies
- Apple ITP
- Some Technical Information on Content Blockers on iOS
- Some information about Third Party Browsers on iOS
- TSA Pre ✓
- Ghostery
- Google Reader (RIP) as a social network
- Reeder
- What are OpenGraph Tags?
- Online ads can be targeted based on your emotions
- Advertising, uh... finds a way.
- Simplify
Podcast listening tracking:
- NPR’s RAD
- Apple and Podcast Analytics
- Target knows you’re pregnant
- Radiolab - Eye in the Sky (an episode discussing benefits vs privacy erosion)
Macbook Pro refresh
- Press release
- iFixit Teardown of new MacBook Pro
- Dust wasn’t the problem?
- Vega 20
- No, the video card wasn’t updated
- The MacBook Nerd
- XKCD Phone: One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | 2000
Mark buys a P100D
S2E18: Last Month Tonight
Aliens Land Here
05/09/19 • 85 min
Mark and Richard talk about the Apple Services event from March, Google Stadia, the Oculus Rift S and Oprah hate.
Apple Event
Apple News+
- More Information
- Some criticism on Apple News+
- Some criticism on Apple News+ on the WSJ (lol)
- How to Read all articles on WSJ via Apple News
- Wall Street Journal Reports on deal with itself
Naming
Apple Card
- More Information
- Wirecutter on Apple Card
- TechCrunch on How Apple Card works
- Bank of America (MBNA) and ShopSafe
- Gas Pumps have a MagStripe compliance deadline of 2020
- Wirecutter on Best Credit Cards
Apple Arcade
- More Information on Apple Arcade
- The Apple Pippin
- An old essay on the problem with apps in the App Store
- Mac Games (Photoshop...)
Apple TV and Apple TV+
- A guide to the new functionality
- Link to Apple TV+
- South Park - “Netflix, you’re greenlit!”
- Logo Programming Online
- Apple TV+: Everything we know so far
- Apple TV+ is going to Smart TVs
Mark’s Rant on Oprah
- The Law of Attraction and criticism on it.
- What is Multi-Level Marketing and A Reddit Group dedicated to hating MLM
- Seeing Steve Jobs complete ignore The Secret on Amazon (Correction: Secret was #3, not #2)
S2E17: 0% Body Fat
Aliens Land Here
04/27/19 • 61 min
Mark and Richard talk about the Model Y, Nintendo Instruction Manuals, Dwarf Fortress, Climbing and new iPads/iMacs.
Preshow
Product Over Time
Nintendo Instruction Manuals
- Final Fantasy 1 for NES Manual
- Startropics Missing Clue
- Warcraft 1 Manual
- If Quake 1 was done today
- How Metroid Prime teaches gamers to play it
Dwarf Fortress Steam Release
GDC and Climbing
- BeatSaber on Quest
- Vive Pro
- Free solo movie
- Alex Honnold - How I climbed a 3000 foot vertical cliff without ropes
Baba is You
New Apple iPads and iMacs
- iPad Press Release
- iPad Engadget Review
- Daring Fireball on iPad
- iMac Press Release
- 2019 iMac Review
- 6k Display
Model Y
Aftershow
S2E16: Macbook Nerd
Aliens Land Here
03/29/19 • 46 min
Mark and Richard talk about Tesla Updates, Alex Trebek, Hololens 2, USB 3.0 and more MacBook Pro hate.
Preshow
Followup
- Huawei Foldable Phone
- Huawei Government Restrictions
- Huawei blatantly rips off other companies
- Corning and Foldable Glass
- Reading Rainbow Transition
- Alex Trebek is dying
- Pat Sajak and Vanna White only work 36 days a year
- Steve Jobs and his treatable Pancreatic Cancer
- Tesla decided to close locations and then leave them open.
- Tesla price cuts and then their price increases.
- Tesla and v3 supercharging
- Tesla Model S and X getting 2170 batteries at some point
- When Microsoft Tried to Require an Internet Connection for Xbox One
Macbook Hierarchy of Needs
HoloLens 2
Nintendo Labo VR
USB 3.2 Standard
Aftershow
S2E15: Do your Homework!
Aliens Land Here
03/09/19 • 62 min
Mark and Richard talk about Otoscopes, Folding Phones, Apple Credit Cards, Transitioning to ARM, and Doug Bowser. Featuring lots of Street Fighter 2 nostalgia in the aftershow.
Pre-show
- Return of ProgressQuest!
Followup
Product Over Time: Vector
Product Over Time: USB Otoscope
Folding Phones
- Galaxy Fold
- Samsung Store locations
- LG Rollable TV
- Rumor of Folding Microsoft Tablet
- Samsung Tri-Fold Tablet
Apple Credit Card
Apple Transitions to ARM in 2020
Book Over Time
Nintendo's New CEO - Doug Bowser
Aftershow
Aftershow - Street Fighter 2
S2E14: I have KMFDM on my Tesla servicing report
Aliens Land Here
02/22/19 • 70 min
Mark and Richard talk about VR, Tesla Pricing Changes, Tesla Servicing, the Facebook Enterprise Certificate debacle and the Six Colors Apple Report Card.
Followup: VR
- Listener Kazzie and her issues with VR and motion sickness
- Lone Echo
- MineCraft VR
- Beat Saber
- Budget Cuts VR
- Job Simulator
Tesla Pricing Changes
- Tesla launches new cheaper Model S and Model X with software-limited battery pack
- Ludicrous Speed IS a software unlock
- Elon Musk Memes
- Porsche GT2 vs GT3
Tesla Service
- KMFDM - Los Niños Del Parque
- Getting your Tesla services in Montana
- Issues with Tesla in Norway
- Tesla reveals new self-driving Autopilot hardware 3.0 computer diagram ahead of launch
- Porsche 800v chargers
- “A mere 350 kW ... what are you referring to, a children's toy?” - Elon Musk
- Electrify America
- Tesla CHAdeMO adapter
Facebook Enterprise Certificates
- Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS Apps
- Apple revokes Google’s Enterprise Certs
- Uber tried to fool Apple and got Caught
- Nielsen VPN
- South Park - HUMANCENTiPAD
Six Colors Apple Report Card
Aftershow
- Talk about Smash Bros
- Fisherman’s Tale
Bonus: Mark got Sascha and Lucia from KMFDM to sign a CD for Richard on October 27th, 2003.
S2E13: I had to change the wifi network on my bed
Aliens Land Here
02/13/19 • 69 min
Mark and Richard talk about spam calls, Ubiquiti, Github and Unity support for SpatialOS.
Intro - Spam Calls
Ubiquiti Hardware
- UniFi Security Gateway (buy)
- UniFi AP AC Pro (buy)
- AC 60 Watt Switch (buy)
- Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Key (buy)
- Power over Ethernet
- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
- Wireless Printers as a Wireless Access Point
- What is Zigbee
- Kevo Plus (buy)
- 2nd Generation Kevo (buy)
- Nest Doorbell
- Skybell HD (buy)
- Sleep Number 360 Bed
- Black Fax Prank
Github
- Github announced Free Repositories
- Google Apps for Domains Free Version
- XKCD - Is it worth the time
- XKCD - Automation
- Microsoft Switching to Chromium Rendering
Unity Discontinues Support for SpatialOS
- Cloud gaming firm: Unity must clarify its terms, reinstate our license
- Epic Games And Improbable Announce $25 Million Fund for Devs Hit by Unity Changes
- Tim Sweeney tweet on Unity EULA
Aftershow
- ProgressQuest
- Being the worst player at Smash Bros Ultimate ( other people do this)
- Street Fighter 2 Car Bonus Level
- Smash Bros - How to Reduce Online Lag
S3E2: Rainbows are Illegal in Russia
Aliens Land Here
10/08/19 • 76 min
Mark and Richard talk about the September Apple event. Yes, this was recorded a month before release... We had a few non-technical difficulties... Also one technical difficulty. No, we did not storm Area 51, thanks for asking.
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How many episodes does Aliens Land Here have?
Aliens Land Here currently has 31 episodes available.
What topics does Aliens Land Here cover?
The podcast is about News, Tech News, Podcasts and Technology.
What is the most popular episode on Aliens Land Here?
The episode title 'S3E01: A Perfectly Safe and Legal Speed' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Aliens Land Here?
The average episode length on Aliens Land Here is 68 minutes.
How often are episodes of Aliens Land Here released?
Episodes of Aliens Land Here are typically released every 14 days, 22 hours.
When was the first episode of Aliens Land Here?
The first episode of Aliens Land Here was released on Aug 14, 2014.
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