<description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New member-exclusive &lt;a href="https://atp.fm/atp-insider-making-the-show"&gt;ATP Insider: Making The Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Follow-up: 

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;John&amp;#8217;s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A funny conspiracy theory shared by &lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@tomalvarez/113644004861297949"&gt;Thomas Alvarez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://ioc.exchange/@whophd/113643384065092194"&gt;Christian Kent&amp;#8217;s correct/joke&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;More app name ideas…&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/"&gt;Experts&lt;/a&gt; have &lt;a href="https://mas.to/@dnanian/113662472336207525"&gt;weighed in&lt;/a&gt; on John&amp;#8217;s idea&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alternative space-saving idea from Timm Schoof&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Using self-service parts for upgrade is not really possible because ✨software✨&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/113651291768791883"&gt;Pinstripes are back&lt;/a&gt;, baby!

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/113651337066219676"&gt;Jeff Johnson&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1hdf7s3/ever_since_i_updated_to_152_my_safari_and_finder/"&gt;Reddit post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Is Siri… emotional… now?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Marco&amp;#8217;s &lt;a href="https://usetrmnl.com/"&gt;new e-ink toy&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://usetrmnl.com/integrations"&gt;Integrations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go"&gt;API&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Note that it&amp;#8217;s &lt;a href="https://usetrmnl.com/blog/batch-1-sold-out"&gt;backordered for a bit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New &lt;a href="https://tv.apple.com/us/show/wild-life/umc.cmc.63jzn7b2c5w488vb72cabapqa"&gt;Wildlife&lt;/a&gt; immersive video episode&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20241217-01"&gt;Blackmagic announces immersive video camera&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@_Davidsmith/113666665256122829"&gt;_&amp;#8217;s toot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_VR"&gt;Quicktime VR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://matterport.com/industries/real-estate"&gt;Matterport&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-12-08/apple-sony-talk-playstation-vr-ps-vr2-hand-controller-support-for-vision-pro"&gt;Apple Vision Pro 🤝 PlayStation VR2 Controllers&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/playstation-vr2"&gt;PlayStation VR2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAfTXYa36f4"&gt;Steve Jobs quoting Alan Kay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Post-show: John&amp;#8217;s app progress

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.caseyliss.com/2020/11/10/on-apples-pisspoor-documentation"&gt;Casey&amp;#8217;s thoughts on [dire lack of] Apple documentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10013"&gt;Meet StoreKit for SwiftUI (WWDC 2023)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/SwiftUI/Backyard-birds-sample"&gt;Apple&amp;#8217;s Backyard Birds sample app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/entitlementtaskstate/map(_:)-8ly3v"&gt;&lt;code&gt;map(_:)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.hackingwithswift.com/"&gt;Hacking with Swift&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://atp.fm/join"&gt;Members-only&lt;/a&gt; ATP Overtime: The Mac monitor situation

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;5K is 5120 × 2880&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/"&gt;Marc Edwards&amp;#8217; chart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/uhd-and-wqhd/27-viewfinity-s9-5k-monitor-with-thunderbolt-4-matte-display-and-smart-features-ls27c900panxza/"&gt;Samsung ViewFinity S9&amp;#160;5K&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;At the time of recording, &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/3NayiPl"&gt;on sale for $720&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/09/review-27-inch-samsung-viewfinity-s9-display/"&gt;Jason&amp;#8217;s review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.asus.com/us/displays-desktops/monitors/proart/proart-display-5k-pa27jcv/"&gt;ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV Professional Monitor&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.cultofmac.com/reviews/5k-desktop-monitor-asus-proart-5k-pa27jcv-review"&gt;Review by D. Griffin Jones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/professional/pd2730s/buy.html"&gt;BenQ PD2730S&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://press.asus.com/news/press-releases/asus-rog-strix-gaming-monitor-proart-display-zenscreen-2025/"&gt;ASUS PorArt Display 6K PA32QCV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/a-future-external-mac-monitor-will-have-an-always-on-display-report-claims/"&gt;Apple&amp;#8217;s plans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

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A new toy Marco bought, a new toy Marco swears he won't buy, many names John won't use for his app, and a snack of sharks.

618: Type System Says No

<description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pre-show: Laundry tactics&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Follow-up: 

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Last (?) batch of football (🏈) news

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://getchannels.com/"&gt;Channels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@simonbs/113607937169109577"&gt;Simon B. Støvring&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;a href="https://www.festivitas.app/"&gt;Festivitas&lt;/a&gt; holiday lights

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coregraphics/cgpath"&gt;CGPath&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-sound-recognition-iphf2dc33312/ios"&gt;Casey&amp;#8217;s phone could recognize his washing machine chime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Apple has a &lt;a href="https://www.selfservicerepair.com/"&gt;self-service repair store&lt;/a&gt; (via Ricky Haase)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;FotS Jonathan Dietz Jr. on SSD performance

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;M1-M3:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;code&gt;ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3NVMeController&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;M4:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;code&gt;ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3CGv2Controller&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;M4 Extreme is &lt;a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/11/m4-extreme-chip-unlikely/"&gt;allegedly canceled&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-is-working-on-ai-chip-with-broadcom"&gt;Original post on The Information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://daringfireball.net/2024/12/information_aside_double_ultra_scrapped"&gt;Gruber&amp;#8217;s take&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://hypercritical.co/2013/03/08/the-case-for-a-true-mac-pro-successor"&gt;The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;John&amp;#8217;s adventures in saving space

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link"&gt;Symbolic links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link"&gt;Hard links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://ss64.com/mac/ditto.html"&gt;&lt;code&gt;ditto&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://diskdedupe.softwar.io"&gt;diskDedupe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/"&gt;SuperDuper!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;visionOS 2.2, macOS 15.2, and &lt;a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/118521"&gt;Mac Virtual Display&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/113636176854317288"&gt;Casey&amp;#8217;s toots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;At the library

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cdn.atp.fm/images/20241212-2024-12-12-casey-mac-virtual-display.png?v1"&gt;Mac Virtual Display in action&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cdn.atp.fm/images/20241212-2024-12-12-casey-desk-area.jpg?v1"&gt;&amp;#8220;Study Room 1&amp;#8221;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cdn.atp.fm/images/20241212-2024-12-12-casey-is-a-dork.jpg?v1"&gt;Casey is such a dork 🤓&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Post-show: Should Casey delay a Callsheet launch in hope of an App Store feature?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://atp.fm/join"&gt;Members-only&lt;/a&gt; ATP Overtime: &lt;a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/"&gt;Macintosh emulator&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@maczydeco/113527850662678715"&gt;forbidden from &lt;em&gt;third party&lt;/em&gt; app stores&lt;/a&gt; 👎🏻

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu/#notarization-for-ios-apps"&gt;Apple&amp;#8217;s &lt;em&gt;self-described&lt;/em&gt; notarization boundaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/security/complying-with-the-dma.pdf"&gt;Notarization Review Guidelines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/about.html"&gt;Mini vMac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

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A new adventure awaits.

617: An Incredibly Dangerous App

<description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pre-show: Marco [re-]discovers &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_lens"&gt;progressives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Follow-up: 

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Yet more football (🏈) news

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Seriously y&amp;#8217;all, the Giants are &lt;a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401671779/giants-cowboys"&gt;so bad&lt;/a&gt; 😭&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Everywhere"&gt;TVEverywhere&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="https://getchannels.com/tv-everywhere/"&gt;Channels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://cdn.atp.fm/images/20241205-immersive-content-graph.png?v1"&gt;AVP immersive content tallies&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href="https://www.david-smith.org"&gt;_&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cleaning a Mac keyboard while screensaver lock is on (via &lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@ParadisePete/113482654871344632"&gt;Paradise Pete&lt;/a&gt;)

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We are one again asking you to consider &lt;a href="https://cleanupbuddy-app/"&gt;CleanupBuddy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Another explanation for ballooning app sizes (via &lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@scopecat/113551545366537486"&gt;Alex&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;More thoughts on Mac SSD upgrades (via FotS Jonathan Dietz, Jr.)

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anobit"&gt;Anobit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Yet apparently &lt;a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/05/company-breaks-apple-storage-monopoly-mac-studio/"&gt;reverse-engineered upgrades are coming?&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.polysoft.fr/"&gt;Polysoft&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/polysoftservices/studio-drive"&gt;Kickstarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ze3kEj4IqU"&gt;Luke Miani tries it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/24305690/threads-default-following-feed-test"&gt;Threads tests allowing users to choose their own default feed&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://tapbots.com/ivory/"&gt;Ivory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://reederapp.com/"&gt;Reeder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://blog.iconfactory.com/2024/02/tapestry-unwoven/"&gt;Tapestry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/DCzYnv8yNeJ"&gt;Zuck&amp;#8217;s post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24311594/intel-under-pat-gelsinger"&gt;Pat Gelsinger is out at Intel&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://stratechery.com/2024/gelsinger-out-at-intel-what-happened-ten-years-too-late/"&gt;Ben Thompson&amp;#8217;s take&lt;/a&gt; (Paywalled)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://x.com/BenBajarin/status/1863658465014714544"&gt;Ben Bajarin&amp;#8217;s take&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)"&gt;Larrabee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor"&gt;Fairchild Semiconductor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;#askatp&lt;/code&gt;:

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What do we wish we could add to our apps, but Apple prevents? 

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://sixcolors.com/offsite/2024/11/the-app-store-era-must-end-and-the-mac-is-the-model/"&gt;The Mac is the Model&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.festivitas.app"&gt;Festivitas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Post-show: &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://atp.fm/join"&gt;Members-only&lt;/a&gt; ATP Overtime: Photography Corner

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tips from FotS &lt;a href="https://stalman.com/"&gt;Tyler Stalman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cropping isn&amp;#8217;t &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; necessary (via Nicholas Gaffney)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Psychology of photography (via Matt Johnson)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

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Third-party Mac SSDs, using Threads and Bluesky, Intel's CEO-firing, and what features we'd add to our apps without the fear of rejection.

616: I Have No Grippers

<description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pre-show: &lt;a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-my-apes-gone"&gt;All John&amp;#8217;s apes gone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Follow-up: 

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Casey has found yet new ways to &lt;a href="https://www.giants.com/schedule/"&gt;make himself miserable&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sunday Ticket updates

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://tv.youtube.com/learn/nflsundayticket/"&gt;On sale!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It was free yesterday… &lt;a href="https://x.com/teamyoutube/status/1860750095014081004"&gt;kind of&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Everywhere"&gt;TV Everywhere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;An alternative approach&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dazn.com"&gt;DAZN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.nfl.com/plus/replays/"&gt;NFL Replay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://tailscale.com/"&gt;Tailscale&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes"&gt;Exit Nodes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://tv.apple.com/us/show/concert-for-one/umc.cmc.2khlg44095l5tdllfpt2rgv9h"&gt;Concert for One: Raye&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.npr.org/series/tiny-desk-concerts/"&gt;NPR Tiny Desk Concerts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL1zyUjzwno&amp;amp;pp=ygUOcmF5ZSB0aW55IGRlc2s%3D"&gt;NPR Tiny Desk Concert: Raye&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Using large external drives with macOS

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/108345"&gt;Photos library&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;An anecdote from Marc Wickens&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Booting from an external&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Downloading large App Store apps

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;App Store&lt;/code&gt; → &lt;code&gt;Settings&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Competition for the wall-mounted &lt;img src="https://cdn.atp.fm/images/20221109-scare-open.gif?v1" alt='"' /&gt;HomePad&lt;img src="https://cdn.atp.fm/images/20221109-scare-close.gif?v1" alt='"'&gt; (via Alesh Houdek)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Apple Intelligence notification summaries

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/113466203439379313"&gt;Steve Troughton-Smith&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mastodon.social/@tofferr/113493081421977488"&gt;Chris Hancock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/20/24300617/doj-google-search-antitrust-chrome-breakup"&gt;DOJ says Google must sell Chrome&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/doj-search-remedies-nov-2024/"&gt;Google&amp;#8217;s &lt;strike&gt;spin&lt;/strike&gt; response&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://stratechery.com/2024/doj-proposes-google-remedy-search-data-eu-fines-meta/"&gt;Ben Thompson&amp;#8217;s take&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-21/apple-readies-more-conversational-llm-siri-in-bid-to-rival-openai-s-chatgpt"&gt;Gurman on a &amp;#8220;more conversational Siri&amp;#8221;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;#askatp&lt;/code&gt;:

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Can one push computation onto the performance cores? (via Andrew Hodgson)

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/"&gt;iStat Menus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Why are apps getting so big? (via James Wilby)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Post-show: Thanksgiving logistics&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://atp.fm/join"&gt;Members-only&lt;/a&gt; ATP Overtime: Services on macOS

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mastodon.world/@luckkerr/110416812996951000"&gt;Łukasz Rutkowski&amp;#8217;s toot in Sean Heber&amp;#8217;s thread&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-services-in-apps-mchlp1012/mac"&gt;Services on macOS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide/MakeaSystem-WideService.html"&gt;Making a system-wide service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2006/10/30/thisservice"&gt;&lt;code&gt;ThisService&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (now defunct)

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/wafflesoftware/thisservice?tab=readme-ov-file"&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;In &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automator_(macOS)"&gt;Automator&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Save your &lt;code&gt;.workflow&lt;/code&gt; files in &lt;code&gt;~/Library/Services/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;To assign a keyboard shortcut:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;code&gt;System Settings&lt;/code&gt; → &lt;code&gt;Keyboard&lt;/code&gt; → &lt;code&gt;Keyboard Shortcuts&lt;/code&gt; (button) → &lt;code&gt;Services&lt;/code&gt; (sidebar) → &lt;code&gt;Text&lt;/code&gt; (list section)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://redsweater.com/fastscripts/"&gt;FastScripts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

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

615: A Mildly Brisk Walk

<description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;🗣️ New &lt;a href="https://atp.fm/join"&gt;ATP Members&amp;#8217;&lt;/a&gt; Special: &lt;a href="https://atp.fm/atp-movie-club-kikis-delivery-service"&gt;ATP Movie Club: Kiki&amp;#8217;s Delivery Service&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki%27s_Delivery_Service"&gt;Kiki&amp;#8217;s Delivery Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Follow-up: 

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/11/apple-debuts-the-weeknds-immersive-music-experience-for-apple-vision-pro/"&gt;The Weeknd: &lt;em&gt;Open Hearts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/the-weeknd-open-hearts/umc.cmc.514y68fx73q3blcgkvcoe1lie"&gt;Link to the video itself&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blink /&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquee_element"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;marquee /&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.lensrentals.com/rent/apple-vision-pro-256gb"&gt;Lensrentals: Vision Pro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;M4 vs. M4 Pro Mac mini SSD speed ∆s (via Thor Johansen)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0pHSz4wyaw"&gt;Quinn&amp;#8217;s video on PC equivalents to the Mac mini&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Apple storage pricing

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1gqpheh/option_a_2tb_storage_option_b_2tb_storage_a_ps5/?rdt=42501"&gt;Mac mini vs. PlayStation 5 Pro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1gr1r10/apple_vs_market_ssd_prices_how_the_gap_grew_from/"&gt;Apple vs. market SSD prices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Retailers are also hamstrung&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/14/m4-macbook-pro-quantum-dot/"&gt;M4 MacBook Pro uses quantum dot technology&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://x.com/DSCCRoss/status/1857208745014776215"&gt;Graphs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alternative drag cancellation options&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;iOS Inactivity Reboot

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/9/24292092/ios-18-security-inactivity-reboot-police-complain-unlocking-iphone-difficult"&gt;Wes Davis at The Verge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.404media.co/apple-quietly-introduced-iphone-reboot-code-which-is-locking-out-cops/"&gt;404 Media&lt;/a&gt; (Paywalled)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://x.com/naehrdine/status/1856802400897503487"&gt;Demo video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://naehrdine.blogspot.com/2024/11/reverse-engineering-ios-18-inactivity.html"&gt;Reverse engineering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;#askatp&lt;/code&gt;:

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How is an M4 Ultra expected to outperform PC GPUs? (via &lt;a href="https://mas.to/@ammarmalik/113480198316687857"&gt;Ammar&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Should macOS-as-a-file-server people worry about &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation"&gt;bitrot&lt;/a&gt;? (via Yannic Boysen)

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://ahl.dtrace.org/2016/06/19/apfs-part5/"&gt;APFS in Detail: Data Integrity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Post-show: Casey&amp;#8217;s adventures in remote television

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://getchannels.com/"&gt;Channels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://amzn.to/3Z3CHcl"&gt;Beelink N95 Mini S&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://amzn.to/490Y5Dq"&gt;HDHomeRun Connect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.fcc.gov/media/engineering/dtvmaps"&gt;DTV Reception Maps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://atp.fm/join"&gt;Members-only&lt;/a&gt; ATP Overtime: Is complaining about Apple&amp;#8217;s prices useful? Do we have any effect?

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax"&gt;Progressive&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_tax"&gt;regressive&lt;/a&gt; taxation&lt;br /&gt;
(Apple is the former)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

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A new spatial video, iPhone security, why Apple doesn't compete with NVIDIA's highest-end GPUs, and anything else to avoid having to do more in-app-purchase testing.

614: Don't Puke for the Show

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