Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show: Casey’s dreams were squashed

Ubiquiti Travel Router

Verizon Jetpack

Marco’s hotspot (newer models exist; check for refurbs, they’re way cheaper than new)

Solis Edge

Follow-up:

The Grim Reaper FiOS CableCARD email came for John

TiVo Roamio Pro

Casey on Downstream

Temporal dithering (via Kyle Foreman)

Dagnabbit, the screen count is just too damn high

MSI MEG Vision X (Screen grab)

MSI Lightning RTX 5090 (Screen grab)

Wi-Fi channel selection & size

Wi-Fi 7 8

A tour of Apple- (or John-) relevant monitors from CES

As a reminder…

Apple Studio Display

Pro Display HDR

MSI MPG 271KRAW16

DisplayHDR 1400 certification

MSI MAG 271KPD7

Monitors Unboxed

ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM (Photo)

HDTVTest

Subpixel arrangements

Apple Creator Studio

Icons over time

Photomator lives on… for now (via Chris Welch)

MacRumors

Apple’s defense of the icons

Jason on iWork freemium

Apple 🤝🏻 Google

More from The Information

Chase to become the new issuer of Apple Card

FAQ

Back story on the Wall Street Journal (Apple News)

Post-show: NBA Immersive

Stratechery

Dithering

Members-only ATP Overtime: The continuing disaster at Twitter

Elizabeth Lopatto: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Dan Moren: Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store

Bloomburg: Musk’s Grok AI blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia over sexual images

Robert Hart & Jess Weatherbed: X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK

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Pre-show: Casey has a question for Marco

LivePhish

Goose on Bandcamp

Nugs

Thank you, ATP Patrons!

Follow-up:

Cord-cutting

Casey on Downstream

suppose.tv

Multi-select in iOS Contacts.app (via many, including Simon Ljungberg)

The Studio Display is $1600 (via Greg Seay)

Quinn’s video on making a 5K display

Display flickering (via Stephen Perelson)

This started in late 2020 with Big Sur

Temporal dithering (AKA Frame rate control)

Stillcolor to disable temporal dithering on macOS

BetterDisplay for turning on and off GPU dithering

Docs

PlayStation Portal

…works with PlayStation Plus

…but really needs solid Wi-Fi

…and doesn’t support Wi-Fi 6

…and requires wired or first-party Bluetooth headphones

Double-tap title bar to Fill (via Chirag Desai)

Knowedge base

System Settings → Desktop & Dock → Window title bar double-click action → Fill

Wi-Fi 7

Ubiquiti’s Wi-Fi 7 implementation is not great (via Reid)

WPA3

WPA3 is not well supported (via USB Type-Steve)

Alternatively, try band steering (via Patch)

Wi-Fi Pro Abraham Vegh weighs in

…as does pro Saul Sutherland

John’s Eero Max 7 setup

Thread vs. Matter

Thread

Matter

Derek Seaman’s series

To run Matter in HA, you need a separate container

Apple Fitness+ and Quitter’s Day

Bodi

ASML & TSMC

Extreme ultraviolet lithography

Veritasium: The Ridiculous Engineering of the World’s Most Important Machine

Asianometry: ASML: TSMC’s Critical Supplier, Explained

TSMC Analysis playlist

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

Tech stuff we’re looking forward to in 2026

Gartner hype cycle

The Trow of Disillusionment

Post-show: Casey bought something silly

Quinn’s video

GL i.Net

/r/ubiquiti

Teleport

Extremely dodgy firmware upgrade approach

Portainer

Members-only ATP Overtime: Strange form factor rumors for forthcoming iPhones

The Information

MacRumors

Mockup image & video

Jason’s & Stepen’s posts

iPhone fold display quietly debuted at CES?

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Pre-show: Comply TrueGrip MAX for AirPods Pro 3

Pepperidge Farm Remembers

Follow-up:

Contacts

Contact lists are a thing (via Dayton Lowell)

Some non-obvious complications (via Paul)

Face ID & Touch ID

Older folks really do struggle with Touch ID (via Harrison Krebs & Kurt Schwind)

Strictness (via Rob Sayre)

John’s Liquid Glass bug in macOS 26.2 (via Gui Rambo)

Gui’s PR

Some more about Podcasts.app and background execution (also from Gui)

FB17228659

Developer Technical Support

RAM shortage

Verge article

Micron’s forthcoming fabs

Hynix’s approach

…and forthcoming fabs

Samsung’s approach

Thru-Silicon

The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-tacular

Data portability

Git

Github will still sink its talons into you (via Simon Jodet)

Xcode 🤝 Git (via Tom Hartnett)

Android ↔ iOS

Display flicker in Tahoe

What does this even mean? (via Daniel)

One theory (via Sean Santry)

Some corroboration (via Philip Hofstetter)

Wi-Fi 7 is a bust

-protonsandneutrons-

Playstation Portal

Ask ATP:

What’s the difference between minimizing and hiding windows on macOS? (via Michael Krewson)

Post-show: What the heck is the deal with Thread/Matter

Home Assistant

Nanoleaf Smart String Lights

Lutron Caséta (former sponsor)

YoLink

Members-only ATP Overtime: iMac Pro… phoenix?

Previous code name discussion

Jason on Apple’s display strategy

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Pre-show: Christmas-slideshow time

Follow-up:

Paris Buttfield-Addison’s locked Apple ID

🇦🇺 ACCC: Consumer Rights & Guarnatees

🇺🇸: Remember when we had a CFPB?

Chat math

Metadata thread splitting & merging

Colin spells it out for us

TV Everywhere

XMLTV

m3u8

IPTV Github Repo

🚨 Proceed with caution 🚨 StreamEast

506 Sports

Custom pronunciations in iOS

Accessibility → VoiceOver → Speech → Pronunciations

See Apple support

Accessibility → Read & Speak → Pronunciations

See Apple support

Apple video guide

Tahoe Studio Display flickering

Malicious content delivery in Apple Podcasts

Previously 1

Previously 2

iPhone roadmap

Article on The Information

iPhone XX rumor roundup

Under-screen FaceID?

Haptic buttons?

Apple exploring touch-sensitive iPhone cases

Patent

Ask ATP:

How do we manage our contacts? (via Tyler Kindy)

How do we use version control? (via Dmitry Myronenko)

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Post-show: John’s bug

FB21375029

Sample project

Members-only ATP Overtime: RAM shortage, or the flip-side of the Apple Intelligence RAM dividend

Sam Altman’s dirty DRAM deal

RAM is ruining everything

It-hurts-because-it’s-true wisecrack by ziplyne

The RAM shortage is here to stay

Chipwrecked

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Pre-show: Marco joins team snow tires

i3: 155/70R19

XC90: 275/40R21

Molex

F-150 Lightning’s demise

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WarGames

Follow-up:

Some impromptu spoiler-free follow-up about the member’s special

John’s Cloudflare update

Hypercritical

Marco’s former TV (via Wayne Morgan)

Apple executive departures

Jeff Williams has been nominated to join Disney’s board

Press release

The Verge

Would Johnny Srouji consider Rivian? What about NVIDIA?

Apple 2030 & carbon credits (via Zach)

Split iMessage groups (via sirshannon)

AI-generated voice-matched dubbing

Fran Besora tried the Spanish version

Stefanus Secundus tried the German version

Ben Mattison had an odd YouTube experience

Siri and pronunciations (via Paul Zadunajsky)

Intel stealing learning from chips it fabs

Thread by Joe Lion

VHDL

Jason Biatek points out this is all basically cryptography

Galois blog post

Migrate Purchases (via James Wilby)

Paris Buttfield-Addison got locked out of his Apple ID… because of a gift card

Casey’s tangentially-related rant

Netflix to acquire Warner Brothers

Dominic Preston at The Verge

From the past: Blockbuster’s reaction to Netflix

Marc Randolph’s comment

Paramount launches hostile $108B bid

Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge: Larry Ellison’s big dumb gift to his large adult son

Gruber’s take

As per Brian Stelter, Netflix is prepared

More Paramount context from Charles Pulliam-Moore at The Verge

Emma Roth at The Verge: CBS News was just taken over by a Substack

Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge: Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Post-show: Casey asks for programming help

StoreKit2

UserDefaults

NotificationCenter

Singleton

Publisher

@Environment

Dependency injection

@EnvironmentObject

Members-only ATP Overtime: The State of TV

Verizon FiOS stabs John & Casey

CableCARD

PCMCIA

TiVo

Channels

HDHomeRun

TVEverywhere

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