Episode 556

556: Apple Chips Are People

The Rewind Pendant, alcantara in new places, using AirPods Pro at a concert, why schools love Chromebooks, and a thousand-year optical-disc journey.

Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP

October 12, 20232h 6m

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Show Notes

Follow-up:
- Overall St. Jude winner: James Neal
- John’s window bug
  - Polling rate does make a difference
    - Source video
  - Polling rate to window quantity experiment
    - Source video
- Macs vs. Chromebooks in education (via John Weston & Steve Ligett)
  - Upgrade #480: Never Do a Deal with the Preference Daemon
  - Jason on Apple’s ∞ Permissions Dialogs
- John gets his Photos.app wish
- Off-center holes aren’t new
- Alcantara iPhone cases
  - Alma
- Casey’s ★★★★☆ iPhone case
- In defense of the utterly ridiculous Razer phone coolers (via Adam)
  - Peltier effect
- Revisiting tire pressure management systems (via Mattias Lindblad)
Casey’s adventures with stop-charging-at-80%
AirPods Pro 2 as concert earplugs
- Soundbrenner Minuendo
  - Others tried: Eargasm, Etymotic ER20XS, Earpeace, Vibes, Mumba
- CodaRoom Custom High-Fidelity Earplugs
Rewind.ai Pendant
- We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
#askatp:
- What makes Apple’s designs so much better? (via Buckaroo Ponzi)
  - P.A. Semi
  - Nuvia Acquisition
- Do we segregate our user data? (via Alfred Flynn)
- How can an iPad-first user back up their photos? (via Joseph Zoller)
Post-show: An optical-disc journey
- Drive
- Discs
- Power Photos