Episode 490

490: Tiny Pictures of Knobs

The imminent MacBook Air, Lockdown Mode, improvements in Ventura beta 3, and finally jumping into SwiftUI.

July 7, 20222h 5m

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Show Notes

Pre-show: Some thoughts on who should have agency over womens’ bodies
Follow-up:
- Using a M1 Mac mini as a Plex server
  - Other video transcoding
- M2 MacBook Air available to order Friday at 8 AM OTTZ
- Quick Pi-hole tip from Tod Weitzel
- Advantages for Apple getting into Buy Now, Pay Later
- A possible motive for bitcode deprecation
  - LLVM
- Why passkeys will be simpler and more secure than passwords
- Janis Peukert asks some questions about passkeys
  - appleid.apple.com
  - App-specific Passwords
- On stateful hardware controls
  - Dancing faders (via Jordan McEwen)
  - Guitar amplifiers (via Samuel Cohen)
  - AirFrance Flight 447 (via Dave Rowenhorst)
  - Anton Yelchin’s odd death back in 2016
    - ZF 8HP transmission
Apple announces Lockdown Mode
M2 MacBook Pro thermal throttling issues
- MaxTech’s video (timestamp link)
- Gary from The Everyday Dad can’t reproduce the issue
- Hardware Unboxed: Apple M2 Review
Some notes on macOS Ventura Beta 3
- System Settings
- iCloud Shared Photo Library
Post-show: Marco is diving into SwiftUI
- Carbon
- .if()