431: City of Chips

Accidental Tech Podcast

• Episode: 431: City of Chips
• Website: Accidental Tech Podcast
• Feed URL: http://atp.fm/episodes?format=rss
• Duration: 02:08:28
• Published: 2021-05-20 17:07

• ALL of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
• Thank you, ATP Store purchasers!
• Follow-up:
  • Third-party menu bar items (via Daniel Jalkut)
    • NSStatusItemBehaviorRemovalAllowed in NSStatusItem.h
  • Spatial Audio from Gui Rambo
    • CMHeadphoneMotionManager
  • 24” iMac Reviews, including Jason Snell’s
    • Matching cords, accessories, desktop backgrounds, stickers, highlight colors, “hello” intro movie
    • Highlight colors via Sebastiaan de With
  • Gasoline stabilizers
• Apple Music adds Spatial Audio & Lossless at No Cost
  • Listening to Spatial Audio with AirPods Pro and AirPods Max
  • Super Audio CD
  • LaserDisc
    • Laserdisc: An Introduction
    • Laserdisc’s Failure: What Went Wrong
    • DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
    • MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
    • Laserdisc: Features, Follies & Evolution
  • XM Radio
  • Xiph.org: wave/”stair-step” sample-rate explainer
  • DAC
  • Loudness war
  • Tidal
  • Pono
  • A2DP
  • aptX
  • AAC
  • AirPods Max and lossless over the cable (via Micah Singleton)
  • Mastered for iTunes
  • LivePhish
  • FLAC
• MacBook Pro Ransomware Leak
  • Casey’s battery/hub
• MacBook Air Rumors
  • John Prosser’s Video
  • Dr. Drang on Battery Life
• Gurman’s Report
  • GeForce RTX 3090
  • macOS 11.4 beta supports new AMD graphics cards
    • AMD 6900 XT
  • The Connection Machine
• Post-show: Casey & John’s Adventures with Eero
  • Eero lights explanation
  • Eero’s comparison page
    • Hint: use code ATP — it still works!

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