Accidental Tech Podcast

• Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them
  
  
  
  
  • 20k Hz
    
    
    
    
    • The Sound of Apple 1.0
    
    
    • The Sound of Apple 2.0
    
    
    • Auto-Tone (Rivian)
    
    
  
  
  • statuslight.com
  
  


• Follow-up:
  
  
  
  
  • That gas car review post that Marco was thinking of
    
    
    
    
    • Former example
    
    
    • Actual link we couldn’t [previously] find (via K)
    
    
    • Another example
    
    
    • And another
    
    
  
  
  • The Find My app can make Macs make noise (via Miles)
  
  
  • Maybe iOS 18’s Photos app isn’t all bad? (via Tim Luft)
  
  
  • The Magic Mouse
    
    
    
    
    • The Apology Mouse did not have side buttons
    
    
    • The Mighty Mouse did
    
    
    • MKBHD’s blind ranking interview with Tim Cook
      
      
      
      
      • Editorialized reel
      
      
    
    
    • What will the new one be?
      
      
      
      
      • Ridiculous mouse rumor
        
        
        
        
        • Gurman’s take
        
        
        • Hello, Computer
        
        
      
      
      • Death to buttons?
      
      
      • Death to ports? (In the name of handedness)
      
      
      • Maybe ape the Logitech MX Anywhere? (via Karan J)
      
      
      • Perhaps a common charging approach?
      
      
    
    
  
  
  • Apple already makes Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chips (via Ian Williamson)
  
  
  • Meshtastic is another application for John and Casey’s new favorite thing, LoRa (via James Andrews)
  
  


• CES 2025
  
  
  
  
  • TVs
    
    
    
    
    • What’s John got his eyes on?
    
    
    • Sony 💔
    
    
    • Samsung’s new QD-OLED
      
      
      
      
      • HDTVTest
      
      
      • Digital Trends
      
      
    
    
    • LG’s flagship goes MLA → Tandem OLED
      
      
      
      
      • Microlens
      
      
      • Tandem OLED
      
      
    
    
    • Panasonic talks about the new LG panel
      
      
      
      
      • “Primary RGB Tandem OLED Panel”
      
      
      • HDTVTest on the Z95B
      
      
    
    
    • More “AI” coming to TVs ☹️
    
    
    • Big TVs are big
    
    
  
  
  • LG Unveils UltraFine 6K Display with Thunderbolt 5
    
    
    
    
    • Recent ATP Overtime on monitors was in Episode #618
    
    
    • Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor “U3224KB”
    
    
  
  
  • Dell no longer makes XPS computers
    
    
    
    
    • Mocked at their own launch is not a great look
    
    
    • Engadget’s take
    
    
  
  
  • Nvidia’s announcements
    
    
    
    
    • Nvidia announces RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs
      
      
      
      
      • DLSS 4
        
        
        
        
        • Explainer video from Nvidia
        
        
      
      
      • Deep learning super sampling
      
      
      • John’s post featuring a video about the responsiveness of touch interfaces
      
      
    
    
    • Nvidia AI supercomputer “Digits”
    
    
    • ~~Concepts of~~ a plan for desktop CPU
    
    
  
  


• TestFlight access to John’s app is [likely] coming for ATP members only


• Post-show:
  
  
  
  
  • Thanks, Patrons 💙
  
  
  • Marco bought something.
    
    
    
    
    • HDCP
    
    
  
  


• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence summaries may get warning labels
  
  
  
  
  • BBC report 1 and report 2
  
  
  • Apple’s response
  
  
  • Allen Pike’s Apple Intelligence evaluation
  
  

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