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• Pre-show:
  • Happy independence day, John!
  • The Great Saunter
    • Pedometer++
  • The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
• 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons
  • More about the flag
• Follow-up:
  • Overcast transcripts
    • Missed Apex
  • MacBook Neo
    • Tim Cook on the MacBook Neo launch
    • New Ice Book? (via Adrian Bengtson)
      • iBook “Snow”
    • Teardown by Framework founder Nirav Patel
      • Framework
    • MacBook Neo vs. Chromebooks
      • “NFW”, says Henry
      • “This could be a breath of fresh air”, says Ari
  • “Medium” Core and M5 Pro/Max information from Apple
    • Chance Miller at 9to5 Mac
      • Original article 🇩🇪
    • PCI Express
  • Ubiquiti
    • What about site-to-site VPN for Marco?
      • UniFi Travel Router
    • “Not so fast, my friend” re: Wi-Fi 7 MLO
      • YouTube announcement
      • Blog post
    • Some shadiness from January
• 🪦 RIP, Mac Pro 🪦
  • Thoroughly Considered #123: The Last Detail with John Siracusa
  • CUDA
• Ask ATP:
  • Are we running any iOS apps in macOS? (via Alex Kent)
  • How would we balance new shiny vs. familiarity? (via Michael Brescher Jr.)
• Post-show: John and Marco bicker about islands
  • Merriam-Webster’s definition of “mainland”
• Members-only ATP Overtime: 🥚 Update
  • 10 February: Delayed to 2027
  • 20 February: Smart speaker with a camera?
    • The Information

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