S3E01: A Perfectly Safe and Legal Speed
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
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
Previous Episode
S2E20: Nested Spoilers
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
Next Episode
S3E2: Rainbows are Illegal in Russia
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.
Show notes to be added someday.
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