430: Apple Did Not Eat That Food

Accidental Tech Podcast

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• Pre-show:
  • ⅔ of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
  • Colonial Pipeline
    • How long does gas last?
• Follow-up:
  • Overpriced AirTag mounts
    • AirTag Leather Key Ring
    • AirTag Leather Loop
    • Belkin Secure Holder with Key Ring for AirTag
    • Marco’s recommended solution
  • Unattended restart with FileVault enabled
    • sudo fdesetup authrestart
      • Or, optionally, sudo fdesetup authrestart -delayminutes 5
    • softwareupdate -ia
  • AppleTV and spatial audio
  • AppleTV supports Wi-Fi 6
• Apple’s bad hire
  • Sommer Panage’s response
  • 🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨 He’s already fired
• Epic vs. Apple, and internal emails
  • Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi on iMessage for Android in 2013
  • Common carrier
  • Steve Jobs 1997 Q&A
  • Schiller wondering about the 30% cut… in 2011
• #askatp
  • Hiding the Dropbox menu-bar icon? (via Jason Bates-Brownsword)
    • Synology Drive
    • Synology Cloud Sync
    • Bartender
    • Rocket
    • Vanilla
  • Could one swap a SoC? (via Chandler Kent)
    • Sarbanes-Oxley
  • How does one back up a MacBook without a Time Capsule? (via John Larson)
    • Nifty MiniDrive
    • The Case for RAID
• Post-show: Marco tried to use Ruby
  • Github Pages
  • Jekyll
  • Hosting SQLite Databases on Github Pages
  • xkcd: The General Problem

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