Episode 417

417: Sand and Water Interface

Beaches, California, resolved Apple drama, SSD wear, Docker, Tesla, Siri's music-service setting, timers on the Apple Watch, the AR rumor, corporate device management, prized personal media files, app-keyword spam, and puppy training. (Is that all?)

Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP

February 11, 20212h 23m

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Show Notes

Pre-show:
- RIP, Call Recorder
- On re-installing or transferring macOS
- If we had to leave the eastern seaboard, where would we move?
Follow-up:
- DTKs are worth more now!
- iOS 14.5 Watch unlock
- Trying to ls ~/.Trash (via Mike Vosseller)
- SSD traffic
  - Two month old SSD
  - smartmontools
  - smartctl --all /dev/disk0
  - Casey’s computations
    - Casey’s data
    - John’s data
- Marco accidentally invents Docker
  - Docker on M1 Macs
  - VMWare Fusion on M1 Macs
- Tesla recall 135,000 vehicles for touchscreen failures
- Mid-reboot turn signals in the Model 3 (via Michael Swindler)
iOS 14.5 beta lets you specify Spotify/others as Siri’s default music service
- INPlayMediaIntent
- INMediaItemType
Marco rants about timers on the Apple Watch
Dan Riccio’s new project
- microLED
- Intel’s USB commercial
#askatp
- Do we let our personal lives bleed onto corporate devices? (via Jordan Cosentino)
- What are our favorite or most obscure media files? (via Doc Davis)
- Is it rude to put another app’s name in your own app’s search keywords?
Post-show: Pupdate
- Kikopup