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Accidental Tech Podcast

650: Whatever It Takes to Get the Laundry Folded

Jul 28, 2025 · 1 hr 27 min · Episode 650 · 84.1 MB

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Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem
Follow-up:
- D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team
- Casey’s struggles with iperf3
  - Tutorial
  - iperf3 -t 60 -c {ip} -P 4 -i 10 -R
- John’s new toaster and E01 (via J-P Teti & John F.)
- Chemical vs. physical sunscreen (via Prodan Statev)
  - Research paper
- Apple security for unreleased devices
- Low-cost Apple laptop (via Jason Anthony Guy)
  - Ed: Please don’t give Apple ideas like this. 🫣
- Getting customer support from Apple (via Patch)
  - Apple support app → Chat
  - Any retail store on Apple Maps → ... → Message
- CloudFlare & AI crawlers
  - Thoughts from Thomas Schoffelen
  - Thoughts from Aaron Zinck
  - Thoughts from Anonymous
    - JA3/JA4 fingerprint
- The 𝓍26 public betas are out
  - Under the Radar #323: The Tidal Wave
- Tahoe beta 4
  - Contrast will decrease until morale improves
    - Startup disk selection (cropped)
    - Startup disk selection (full)
  - News summaries are back, baby! 😬
Apple and interfaces
- Tog in Interface (1992)
  - Amazon
  - NNG
- Tog on Software Design (1995)
  - Amazon
  - NNG
- Apple’s Aqua introduction, Macworld San Francisco, 2000
AppleCare One
- Dan Moren’s take
- The Verge
- Fees & deductibles
- FAQ (scroll way down)
Post-show: John has an addendum to his earlier topic
Members-only ATP Overtime: Frame of preference, an incredible exploration of the Mac’s settings by Marcin Wichary in concert with Mihai Parparita of the Infinite Mac Project

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