• Pre-show: Casey’s dreams were squashed
  • Ubiquiti Travel Router
  • Verizon Jetpack
  • Marco’s hotspot (newer models exist; check for refurbs, they’re way cheaper than new)
  • Solis Edge
• Follow-up:
  • The Grim Reaper FiOS CableCARD email came for John
    • TiVo Roamio Pro
    • Casey on Downstream
  • Temporal dithering (via Kyle Foreman)
  • Dagnabbit, the screen count is just too damn high
    • MSI MEG Vision X (Screen grab)
    • MSI Lightning RTX 5090 (Screen grab)
  • Wi-Fi channel selection & size
  • Wi-Fi 7 8
• A tour of Apple- (or John-) relevant monitors from CES
  • As a reminder…
    • Apple Studio Display
    • Pro Display HDR
  • MSI MPG 271KRAW16
  • DisplayHDR 1400 certification
  • MSI MAG 271KPD7
    • Monitors Unboxed
  • ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM (Photo)
    • HDTVTest
  • Subpixel arrangements
• Apple Creator Studio
  • Icons over time
  • Photomator lives on… for now (via Chris Welch)
    • MacRumors
  • Apple’s defense of the icons
  • Jason on iWork freemium
• Apple 🤝🏻 Google
  • More from The Information
• Chase to become the new issuer of Apple Card
  • FAQ
  • Back story on the Wall Street Journal (Apple News)
• Post-show: NBA Immersive
  • Stratechery
  • Dithering
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The continuing disaster at Twitter
  • Elizabeth Lopatto: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
  • Dan Moren: Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store
  • Bloomburg: Musk’s Grok AI blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia over sexual images
  • Robert Hart & Jess Weatherbed: X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK

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• Pre-show: Casey has a question for Marco
  • LivePhish
  • Goose on Bandcamp
  • Nugs
• Thank you, ATP Patrons!
• Follow-up:
  • Cord-cutting
    • Casey on Downstream
    • suppose.tv
  • Multi-select in iOS Contacts.app (via many, including Simon Ljungberg)
  • The Studio Display is $1600 (via Greg Seay)
    • Quinn’s video on making a 5K display
  • Display flickering (via Stephen Perelson)
    • This started in late 2020 with Big Sur
    • Temporal dithering (AKA Frame rate control)
    • Stillcolor to disable temporal dithering on macOS
    • BetterDisplay for turning on and off GPU dithering
      • Docs
  • PlayStation Portal
    • …works with PlayStation Plus
    • …but really needs solid Wi-Fi
    • …and doesn’t support Wi-Fi 6
    • …and requires wired or first-party Bluetooth headphones
  • Double-tap title bar to Fill (via Chirag Desai)
    • Knowedge base
    • System Settings → Desktop & Dock → Window title bar double-click action → Fill
  • Wi-Fi 7
    • Ubiquiti’s Wi-Fi 7 implementation is not great (via Reid)
      • WPA3
    • WPA3 is not well supported (via USB Type-Steve)
    • Alternatively, try band steering (via Patch)
    • Wi-Fi Pro Abraham Vegh weighs in
    • …as does pro Saul Sutherland
    • John’s Eero Max 7 setup
  • Thread vs. Matter
    • Thread
    • Matter
    • Derek Seaman’s series
    • To run Matter in HA, you need a separate container
  • Apple Fitness+ and Quitter’s Day
    • Bodi
• ASML & TSMC
  • Extreme ultraviolet lithography
  • Veritasium: The Ridiculous Engineering of the World’s Most Important Machine
  • Asianometry: ASML: TSMC’s Critical Supplier, Explained
    • TSMC Analysis playlist
  • The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
• Tech stuff we’re looking forward to in 2026
  • Gartner hype cycle
  • The Trow of Disillusionment
• Post-show: Casey bought something silly
  • Quinn’s video
  • GL i.Net
  • /r/ubiquiti
  • Teleport
  • Extremely dodgy firmware upgrade approach
  • Portainer
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Strange form factor rumors for forthcoming iPhones
  • The Information
  • MacRumors
  • Mockup image & video
  • Jason’s & Stepen’s posts
  • iPhone fold display quietly debuted at CES?

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• Pre-show: Comply TrueGrip MAX for AirPods Pro 3
  • Pepperidge Farm Remembers
• Follow-up:
  • Contacts
    • Contact lists are a thing (via Dayton Lowell)
    • Some non-obvious complications (via Paul)
  • Face ID & Touch ID
    • Older folks really do struggle with Touch ID (via Harrison Krebs & Kurt Schwind)
    • Strictness (via Rob Sayre)
  • John’s Liquid Glass bug in macOS 26.2 (via Gui Rambo)
    • Gui’s PR
  • Some more about Podcasts.app and background execution (also from Gui)
    • FB17228659
    • Developer Technical Support
  • RAM shortage
    • Verge article
    • Micron’s forthcoming fabs
    • Hynix’s approach
      • …and forthcoming fabs
    • Samsung’s approach
    • Thru-Silicon
    • The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-tacular
  • Data portability
    • Git
      • Github will still sink its talons into you (via Simon Jodet)
      • Xcode 🤝 Git (via Tom Hartnett)
    • Android ↔ iOS
  • Display flicker in Tahoe
    • What does this even mean? (via Daniel)
    • One theory (via Sean Santry)
    • Some corroboration (via Philip Hofstetter)
• Wi-Fi 7 is a bust
  • -protonsandneutrons-
  • Playstation Portal
• Ask ATP:
  • What’s the difference between minimizing and hiding windows on macOS? (via Michael Krewson)
• Post-show: What the heck is the deal with Thread/Matter
  • Home Assistant
  • Nanoleaf Smart String Lights
  • Lutron Caséta (former sponsor)
  • YoLink
• Members-only ATP Overtime: iMac Pro… phoenix?
  • Previous code name discussion
  • Jason on Apple’s display strategy

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• Pre-show: Christmas-slideshow time
• Follow-up:
  • Paris Buttfield-Addison’s locked Apple ID
    • 🇦🇺 ACCC: Consumer Rights & Guarnatees
    • 🇺🇸: Remember when we had a CFPB?
  • Chat math
  • Metadata thread splitting & merging
  • Colin spells it out for us
    • TV Everywhere
    • XMLTV
    • m3u8
    • IPTV Github Repo
    • 🚨 Proceed with caution 🚨 StreamEast
    • 506 Sports
  • Custom pronunciations in iOS
    • Accessibility → VoiceOver → Speech → Pronunciations
      • See Apple support
    • Accessibility → Read & Speak → Pronunciations
      • See Apple support
    • Apple video guide
  • Tahoe Studio Display flickering
  • Malicious content delivery in Apple Podcasts
    • Previously 1
    • Previously 2
• iPhone roadmap
  • Article on The Information
• iPhone XX rumor roundup
  • Under-screen FaceID?
  • Haptic buttons?
• Apple exploring touch-sensitive iPhone cases
  • Patent
• Ask ATP:
  • How do we manage our contacts? (via Tyler Kindy)
  • How do we use version control? (via Dmitry Myronenko)
• 🗣️ Remember, ATP gift memberships are a thing!
• Post-show: John’s bug
  • FB21375029
  • Sample project
• Members-only ATP Overtime: RAM shortage, or the flip-side of the Apple Intelligence RAM dividend
  • Sam Altman’s dirty DRAM deal
  • RAM is ruining everything
  • It-hurts-because-it’s-true wisecrack by ziplyne
  • The RAM shortage is here to stay
  • Chipwrecked

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• Pre-show: Marco joins team snow tires
  • i3: 155/70R19
  • XC90: 275/40R21
  • Molex
  • F-150 Lightning’s demise
• 🗣️ Remember, ATP gift memberships are a thing!
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  • WarGames
• Follow-up:
  • Some impromptu spoiler-free follow-up about the member’s special
  • John’s Cloudflare update
    • Hypercritical
  • Marco’s former TV (via Wayne Morgan)
  • Apple executive departures
    • Jeff Williams has been nominated to join Disney’s board
      • Press release
      • The Verge
    • Would Johnny Srouji consider Rivian? What about NVIDIA?
  • Apple 2030 & carbon credits (via Zach)
  • Split iMessage groups (via sirshannon)
  • AI-generated voice-matched dubbing
    • Fran Besora tried the Spanish version
    • Stefanus Secundus tried the German version
    • Ben Mattison had an odd YouTube experience
  • Siri and pronunciations (via Paul Zadunajsky)
  • Intel stealing learning from chips it fabs
    • Thread by Joe Lion
      • VHDL
    • Jason Biatek points out this is all basically cryptography
      • Galois blog post
  • Migrate Purchases (via James Wilby)
• Paris Buttfield-Addison got locked out of his Apple ID… because of a gift card
  • Casey’s tangentially-related rant
• Netflix to acquire Warner Brothers
  • Dominic Preston at The Verge
  • From the past: Blockbuster’s reaction to Netflix
    • Marc Randolph’s comment
  • Paramount launches hostile $108B bid
    • Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge: Larry Ellison’s big dumb gift to his large adult son
    • Gruber’s take
    • As per Brian Stelter, Netflix is prepared
    • More Paramount context from Charles Pulliam-Moore at The Verge
      • Emma Roth at The Verge: CBS News was just taken over by a Substack
      • Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge: Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
• Post-show: Casey asks for programming help
  • StoreKit2
  • UserDefaults
  • NotificationCenter
  • Singleton
  • Publisher
  • @Environment
  • Dependency injection
  • @EnvironmentObject
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The State of TV
  • Verizon FiOS stabs John & Casey
  • CableCARD
  • PCMCIA
  • TiVo
  • Channels
  • HDHomeRun
  • TVEverywhere

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