Episode 615

615: A Mildly Brisk Walk

Casey's adventures in sports piracy, John's loss of apes, and Marco's visions of pores.

November 26, 20242h 4m

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Show Notes

Pre-show: All John’s apes gone
Follow-up:
- Casey has found yet new ways to make himself miserable
  - Sunday Ticket updates
    - On sale!
    - It was free yesterday… kind of
  - TV Everywhere
  - An alternative approach
  - DAZN
  - NFL Replay
  - Tailscale and Exit Nodes
- Concert for One: Raye
  - NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
  - NPR Tiny Desk Concert: Raye
- Using large external drives with macOS
  - Photos library
  - An anecdote from Marc Wickens
  - Booting from an external
  - Downloading large App Store apps
    - App Store → Settings
- Competition for the wall-mounted HomePad (via Alesh Houdek)
- Apple Intelligence notification summaries
  - Steve Troughton-Smith
  - Chris Hancock
DOJ says Google must sell Chrome
- Google’s ~~spin~~ response
- Ben Thompson’s take
Gurman on a “more conversational Siri”
#askatp:
- Can one push computation onto the performance cores? (via Andrew Hodgson)
  - iStat Menus
- Why are apps getting so big? (via James Wilby)
Post-show: Thanksgiving logistics
Members-only ATP Overtime: Services on macOS
- Łukasz Rutkowski’s toot in Sean Heber’s thread
- Services on macOS
- Making a system-wide service
- ThisService (now defunct)
  - Github
- In Automator
  - Save your .workflow files in ~/Library/Services/
  - To assign a keyboard shortcut:
    System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts (button) → Services (sidebar) → Text (list section)
- FastScripts