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606: A Decade of Half-Presses

Tue, 24 Sep 2024

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Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Donate in ATP’s name! Ryan Ricard’s great idea Calculate your Marco Offset Podcastathon: Casey was live from noon → midnight on Friday, 20 September Follow-up: John filename extraction from Photos From the ATP Insider: Photo Workflows special John’s AppleScript Other suggestions Shortcuts (for example, Josh Woodward’s) osxphotos (via Muli) Directly read SQLite database Suggestion from Will Leinweber Use Swift/PhotoKit Example from Alex Mazanov SwiftBar Always sending photos to the shared library (via Alexander Faxå) JPEG-XL in iOS 18 on iPhone 16 iPhone apps and spying via the microphone Eavesdropping via Siri Secure Exclave iPhone 16 & 16 Plus battery removal iFixIt teardown iFixIt blog post Jeff Johnson figured out how to silence the monthly screen recording prompts Sometimes the keys are bundle IDs Shell script to push everything out a year by Kyle Rubenok Amnesia App has come out to handle this for you TextSniper iPhone 16 Pro Impressions Is it green or blue? Belkin UltraGlass 2 Screen Protector Hypercritical #86: Naked Robotic Core AirPods 4 with ANC Impressions Apple Watch Series 10 Impressions Post-show Neutral: Volvo EX90’s annoying “feature” Animation Timestamp link to a video review Still images Bugatti Chiron Headlight replacement Members-only ATP Overtime: Meta kicks Apple when it’s down Meta canceled its Vision Pro competitor The Information Zuckerberg calls Meta the “opposite of Apple” Interview video Sponsored by: Trade Coffee: Coffee at home, made better. Get your first bag free! 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

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0.469 - 22.026 John Siracusa

I am back on the beach today, and I'm so happy. The beach in September is beautiful, because it's still pretty warm, some of the restaurants are still open, and there's no one here. Because as soon as the school year starts, everyone stops coming here. The workers who work locally here call it Tumbleweed Tuesday, the day after Labor Day, because...

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22.686 - 47.564 John Siracusa

it's just it literally is like a light switch like labor day weekend massive you know crowded everything and then literally like tuesday just tumbleweeds blow through the town like it's no one is here um so it is uh you know we're not able to spend a ton of time here because we also are bound now by the mainland school year but uh wow it's it's so it's so nice here it's like walking through like one of those like deserted video game levels fewer zombies

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47.964 - 70.252 John Siracusa

yeah a few well i mean you know the few people who were left you know we're certainly an eccentric crowd certainly some characters walking around we don't get sent a lot of side quests though but but it is certainly uh certainly some some eccentrics that's that's part of part of one of the one of the best things i love about being here in this weird beach town is that

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70.952 - 94.037 John Siracusa

the people who are here for long enough i don't know if it makes you eccentric or if only eccentric people can tolerate being here for that long but whatever it is it selects for eccentricity and so everyone here is weird like i fit in great because i'm weird too i'm just and i'm weird in different ways than some of the other ones but like everyone here is just so gloriously weird i'm

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94.637 - 118.011 John Siracusa

i feel so at home here like long island long island has its weirdos for sure uh but it's it's more like regular suburban america you know you don't see a lot of that coming out in the beach town everyone lets their weirdness fly and it is just glorious to be here and and you could you feel like the most normal person even when you are as weird as i am oh my uh do you have your car back

118.782 - 146.668 John Siracusa

uh yeah i've got it back the issue has not recurred it's been fine i actually heard from a couple of listeners who wrote in uh who said that they actually had similar problems with like you know some high voltage error message with their bmw ix on its first day and then they got it fixed and they never saw it again so i'm hoping that's going to happen to me uh otherwise still loving the car it's still really great there's nothing more to report there is it's now gonna i hope it's now gonna be just a boring car ownership story for the next three years

147.188 - 171.642 John Siracusa

And then I'll pick something else or the same thing again or buy this one. Who knows? But I look forward to going back to my car not being a point of flux. I've had various neck and shoulder tension issues over the last couple of years. I've been working through some weird little issues. During all the Rivian drama, I couldn't even turn my head all the way to one side. It was really bad.

171.702 - 192.895 John Siracusa

My whole shoulder blade was all tense. I went to a physical therapist and fixed it a little bit, but I had to go back the next week to fix it more. As soon as I got the new car... It was like a light switch turned off there, too. It's like it was just all that stress was just melted away as it just started working.

193.356 - 198.638 John Siracusa

And it just like didn't it wasn't causing all this problem and distraction in my life.

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