#askatp
Questions previously asked on the Accidental Tech Podcast.
What would be important in a “3rd alternative” desktop operating system?
Stephan Jacobs
January 9, 2023
How does John feel about lossy streaming on his fancypants new TV?
Sean Cameron
January 3, 2023
What’s the best way to backup a Photos library to a Synology?
Justin Fisher
January 3, 2023
Why even bother with your own blog/domain anyway?
Petar Petrović
December 27, 2022
What should I do about bit rot?
Jeremy Nash
December 27, 2022
Do we use native mouse acceleration?
1:53:05
December 27, 2022
What are the top-level folders on our home directory?
Matt Toohey
December 22, 2022
Do any of us journal?
Arthur Dickerson
December 22, 2022
How does the Mac Studio compare to John’s ideal computer?
Daryl Thornton
December 8, 2022
Why can’t we quit Finder?
Guilherme Alles
December 8, 2022
Why bother with an Apple TV when modern TVs can do all the same stuff?
Dominic Lemire
November 22, 2022
Is using an Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot ethical?
nougatmachine
November 22, 2022
What is the best-designed Mac app that Apple currently makes?
Claude Zeins
November 17, 2022
Is “smart home” tech really worth it?
James Egg
November 10, 2022
Which host is the fastest typist?
Mark Richard
November 10, 2022
When will we get a bezel-less Apple Watch?
Bryan
October 13, 2022
Why would one want a M1 Max Mac Studio over an equivalent M1 Max MacBook Pro?
John Enger
October 13, 2022
Why does router range matter?
Andy Hyde
October 13, 2022
Can we give a primer on macOS window management?
Philipp
October 6, 2022
How does John manage color on his TV?
David Comay & Jeff Nachbar
October 6, 2022
What is our version control strategy?
Thomas Ferraro
September 29, 2022
Do we use the production or beta versions of our own apps?
Nick Clinch
September 29, 2022
How in the world are some app updates multiple hundreds of megabytes‽
Bart Kowalski
August 25, 2022
What do we think of Svalt?
Robert Campbell
August 25, 2022
How does one manage DNS and certificates for home servers?
Christopher Anderson
August 18, 2022
How do we protect our focus time and balance versus family time?
Nick Serrano
August 18, 2022
What should a first-time parent know?
Carlos Quinela
August 18, 2022
Can an indie app enter a crowded field?
Abel Demoz
July 30, 2022
Why don’t we use cross-platform frameworks?
Russel Bernau
July 30, 2022
Is Time Machine still the best feature ever implemented on the Mac?
Guilherme Alles
July 30, 2022
Would John potentially void his TV’s warranty to prevent auto-dimming?
Mark Vos
July 30, 2022
Has John decided on a backup strategy for his son’s MacBook Air?
Brian Lazarz
July 30, 2022
How do we manage mail notifications on our devices?
Michael Chan
July 20, 2022
How do we backup our photos/videos?
Don Clark
July 20, 2022
Do we think macOS will bloat enough to make Apple Silicon seem slow?
Nitesh Singh
July 20, 2022
Why does John say “program” from time to time?
William Reynish
July 20, 2022
How does a current-whippersnapper pick a decent custom domain for email?
Fletcher O’Connor
July 20, 2022
How does one diagnose a Mac randomly waking from sleep?
Radu Piroșca
July 14, 2022
What do we do when someone changes their phone number?
July 14, 2022
What would get us to leave the hell site?
Carl Rozas
July 14, 2022
What makes WWDC ‘22 different than the before times?
Elijah Yap
June 30, 2022
Are we living in the gilded age for Mac professionals?
Wade Tregaskis
June 30, 2022
How close is APFS (🛎️) to ZFS?
Dave Aton
June 30, 2022
Is there any bespoke music app for listening to concerts?
Bill Steinbach
May 19, 2022
What Safari extensions are we running and recommend?
Robert Bateau
May 19, 2022
Are software clean-up apps snake oil on macOS?
Jon Sulek
May 12, 2022
What is Marco’s Overcast redesign process?
Steven Garrity
May 6, 2022
Where is the Mac’s sound mixer?
Carl Freyer
May 6, 2022
As the M1 is based on the A14, might the M2 skip the A15 and instead be based on the A16?
April 18, 2022
If the Studio Display was released concurrently with the Pro Display XDR, would John & Marco still get the XDR?
April 18, 2022
If going from Canon dSLR → mirrorless, is it worth jumping to Sony?
Elijah
April 6, 2022
Are fusion drives even worth it in 2022?
Ryan Morey
April 6, 2022
Is there any sort of KVM-like thing for Thunderbolt?
Matt Chinander
April 6, 2022
Given The Cook Doctrine, why is Apple bothering making their own cellular modems?
Daniel Bergqvist
April 6, 2022
Will Apple ever make their own display panel?
C
March 31, 2022
Did the DTK set reasonable expectations for M1 devices?
Ryan Petriello
March 17, 2022
Does switching to higher-resolution displays put a strain on the CPU/GPU?
Peter Wagoner
March 17, 2022
What are the three ugliest Macs of all time?
Wade
March 17, 2022
What’s Marco’s current coffee setup?
Omri Arbiv
February 24, 2022
Is John still subscribed to cable?
Omri Arbiv
February 24, 2022
What’s Marco’s current coffee setup?
Omri Arbiv
February 24, 2022
Is John still subscribed to cable?
Omri Arbiv
February 24, 2022
Why do cars always steal Bluetooth connections?
Chris Gleim
February 17, 2022
Why doesn’t anyone use Wi-Fi for audio playback?
Steven J. Stutz
February 10, 2022
Do we use color calibration tools for our monitors?
Chris Koerner
February 10, 2022
How do we prevent keyboards damaging screens on laptops?
Priyansh Singh
February 10, 2022
How do we back up shared photo albums?
Carlos Moffat
February 3, 2022
What security steps do we take for family devices?
Lars Bekkema
February 3, 2022
Will macOS last another 20 years?
Daniel Begqvist
January 20, 2022
What game system for a casual gamer who hasn’t had a console in ten years?
Patrick
January 20, 2022
Do programming languages cause problems for people with hyphenated last names?
Peter
January 20, 2022
How can there be a huge ∆ between data in Photos and the actual Photos Library on disk?
January 13, 2022
Would we rock a full-on iMac as an external monitor if Target Display Mode still existed?
Jeff Fowler
December 30, 2021
When did Corvettes start looking so different?
Rob Knight
December 22, 2021
What vaporware would we love to see Apple work on?
Juno Orion
December 22, 2021
Do any of us use Finder replacements like PathFinder?
Sam
December 16, 2021
Do we use Swift for anything other than iOS/macOS apps?
Jan de Geest
December 16, 2021
How come the TouchBar failed where the iPhone succeeded?
Todd Kaprielian
December 9, 2021
Why is Chromium’s dominance bad for the open web?
Aryan Aneja
December 9, 2021
Why bother with a Mac Pro?
Dave Saunders
December 9, 2021
Which company would we love to see Apple buy & integrate?
Ryan
December 2, 2021
Why bother with backups anymore?
Joe Athman
December 2, 2021
How can one keep an older MacBook Pro running well?
Stephan
November 22, 2021
How do we organize our pictures?
Guilherme Alles
November 22, 2021
What’s the ∆ between a junior & senior developer?
Roar Lochar
November 22, 2021
Would we rather use a previous-gen MacBook Pro with an M1 Max, or the new MacBook Pro with an Intel CPU?
Joel Short
November 11, 2021
Why are progress bars so hard?
Derek Aldridge
October 14, 2021
Does John maintain his old hardware?
Sean Cohen
October 14, 2021
Would/should Apple make ergonomic accessories?
Johnny Oliver
October 7, 2021
Can the "This website is using significant energy" notices be stopped?
Michael Hagan
October 7, 2021
Is there any way to limit Messages’ size on disk?
Richie Aharonian
August 12, 2021
Do we still use e-readers?
Aryan Aneja
August 5, 2021
What’s the desk chair update?
Carlos Luis Portillo
July 8, 2021
How do we import photos taken on a “big” camera?
Stephen Kim
July 8, 2021
What’s the deal with Matter (née CHoIP)?
Jon Strand
July 1, 2021
What’s the deal with Mighty?
Peter Waller
July 1, 2021
What keyboard do we use?
Kyle Matson
June 24, 2021
What’s the deal with “side-loading”, anyway?
Lewis O’Neil
June 24, 2021
How is being a developer on Apple Silicon?
Abel Demoz
June 17, 2021
What year will be the final year of macOS on Intel?
Ralf Krakowski
June 17, 2021
How do the low-power M1 cores use only 1/10th the power of the high-power M1 cores?
Brian Pirie
June 17, 2021
Hiding the Dropbox menu-bar icon?
Jason Bates-Brownsword
May 13, 2021
Could one swap a SoC?
Chandler Kent
May 13, 2021
How does one back up a MacBook without a Time Capsule?
John Larson
May 13, 2021
What would it take to get you into this [phantom] Mac Pro, today, John?
Brian Ashe
April 29, 2021
Do we use FileVault on our personal Macs? How come?
Lingxiu Zhang
April 29, 2021
What’s the longevity of the M1 look like?
Johann Neubert
April 29, 2021
Single HomePod or dual HomePod Mini? What if there’s already a HomePod?
Josh Errickson
April 15, 2021
What’s the point of BCC in email?
Chuma Nnaji
April 15, 2021
How long until we see Apple using Armv9?
April 15, 2021
How does Overcast scrape iTunes?
Brandon Wees
April 1, 2021
When did photos become more than just files?
Matt Fenselau
March 25, 2021
What’s up with Apple’s awful user experience with OS updates?
Dan Young
March 25, 2021
Why aren’t there more background notifications from apps that aren’t running?
Nathanael Mol
March 17, 2021
Why does Overcast do processing server-side?
Michael Hellwig
March 17, 2021
Whose fault is it that Apple Silicon is 🔥?
Nick
March 11, 2021
What would Apple need to do to make macOS gaming competitive?
Matt Chapman Jones
March 11, 2021
Do we use battery backups for our desktops? What about other ancillary equipment?
Ramanujan Srinath
March 11, 2021
Do we use non-ISP-provided DNS?
Alex Guthman
March 4, 2021
What’s our 🤬 problem with Electron, anyway?
Nathan Roberts
March 4, 2021
Would we enjoy an Uber clone powered by Apple autonomous EVs?
Matt Steiner
March 4, 2021
Is it safe to use a High Sierra machine after security updates cease?
John Hovland
February 25, 2021
How do I clean up my Dock?
Harjas Monga
February 25, 2021
Do we let our personal lives bleed onto corporate devices?
Jordan Cosentino
February 11, 2021
Is it rude to put another app’s name in your own app’s search keywords?
February 11, 2021
What are our favorite or most obscure media files?
Doc Davis
February 11, 2021
Do we use CleanMyMac X/OnyX/etc?
Donald Rabideau
February 4, 2021
Does a small amount of RAM limit SSD lifespan?
Dan Blondell
February 4, 2021
How do simultaneous writes to a SSD work?
Jan Philipp
February 4, 2021
Would Apple ever offer iCloud Backup for macOS?
Aidan Trager
February 4, 2021
Do we care about the Sent with Siri footnotes in Messages?
Rohit Sharma
January 28, 2021
How is it going from shared-iTunes, separate-iCloud accounts to Family Sharing?
Peter Yang
January 14, 2021
What are we using for computer speakers?
Genaro Diaz
January 14, 2021
What do we use to keep track of finances?
Gage Benne
January 14, 2021
How does Marco sell his unwanted computers?
Brian
January 7, 2021
Why do HDR videos look so great but HDR photos… not?
Chris Lenart
December 22, 2020
Is there a way to prevent an application from stealing focus in macOS?
Wes Chamness
December 22, 2020
What’s the best way to back up your iCloud Photo Library if it can’t fit on your Mac?
December 22, 2020
What advice do we have for leading people at work?
Andrew Larson
December 17, 2020
Component Motherboards : SoC :: ICE : Electric Cars?
Kevin Doran
December 3, 2020
Is it possible to disable the fan on the new M1 MacBook Pro?
Matthew Taylor
December 3, 2020
Are we concerned about the longevity of M1 chips?
Colin Devroe
November 25, 2020
Do we believe in cable management?
Nick
November 25, 2020
Robot or Not: Cache edition
Chris Cioffi
November 25, 2020
Have we tried watchOS sleep tracking?
Eduardo Berner
October 22, 2020
What is taking up so much space on our phones‽
Jayanth Visweswaran
October 22, 2020
What’s the deal with disk images, anyway?
Andy
October 8, 2020
What’s the point in a “real” camera?
Luke Shulman
October 8, 2020
What’s the right way for someone who knows filesystems (🛎) to back up a Mac?
October 1, 2020
How much disk space is left on my APFS-based storage‽
Ron Olson
September 3, 2020
Is the Mac menu bar going to become window chrome?
Michael Grossmann
September 3, 2020
How much of the macOS reviews of yore changed during the writing process?
August 27, 2020
What do we use to filter spam?
Michael Boyle
August 27, 2020
How should we store our older cables?
Chris Anderson
August 27, 2020
Why doesn’t macOS let you place your windows just so?
Nathaniel Cohen
August 20, 2020
How does a developer with no design skills get better at design?
Mike Milinazzo
August 20, 2020
How do we move data between computers? (Yes, again.)
Jon Aumann
August 1, 2020
Will iPhone-only apps be rotated appropriately for usage on macOS/iPad OS?
John Demco
August 1, 2020
How does John “back up” the junk valuable artifacts in his attic?
John Larson
August 1, 2020
If we can go iOS → macOS, can we go macOS → iOS?
Eduard Rozenberg
July 23, 2020
Could one replace an actual computer with an iPad/iPhone, particularly for relatives?
July 16, 2020
How do we handle migration between Macs?
Jacob Rosin
July 9, 2020
What’s the best Wi-Fi/networking setup?
Benjamin Sharbaugh
May 28, 2020
How do we move Xcode signing assets between Macs?
Jeffrey Wilkinson
May 28, 2020
Is iOS 13 ready yet?
Luke Arthur
May 21, 2020
Will iPadOS ever become multi-user?
Pascal Lindelauf
May 14, 2020
Is it a bad idea to prevent hard drives from sleeping?
Andreas Beyer Bowden
April 24, 2020
What was it like for old dudes to graduate from college?
Nate J
April 24, 2020
How do we make time for listening to our favorite shows?
Aadi Bhure
April 16, 2020
What podcast episode are we most proud of having recorded, and why?
April 16, 2020
Is the 2015 15" MBP still the best laptop ever made
James Scariati
March 12, 2020
Do we have hard-drive icons on our desktop?
Rob Fiorendino
March 12, 2020
What are some of our favorite macOS keyboard shortcuts?
March 5, 2020
Is there a difference between an app's Open at login and System Preferences → User & Groups → Login Items?
March 5, 2020
How do we handle the business side of the App Store?
Stephen Gerstacker
February 27, 2020
How should one partition an onboard SSD?
James Irwin
February 20, 2020
What's the situation with macOS security?
Anthony Scardapane
February 13, 2020
How do we use show notes as a listener?
Simo Isto
February 13, 2020
What do we think about homebrew?
Stephan Jacobs
February 6, 2020
What's the difference between ⇧/⌘/⌥ keys?
February 6, 2020
What do we name our Wi-Fi networks?
Jesse in South Dakota
February 6, 2020
Is iCloud photo sharing really this much of a mess?
Dzmitry Tabakerau
January 1, 2020
What's the deal with external backup drive noise, anyway?
Hans Scneider
December 22, 2019
Should one get a Mac Mini now or wait?
Paul Dunahoo
November 7, 2019
Should I wait to buy a new Mac until they're on ARM?
James Shield
October 31, 2019
Why hasn't Time Machine been updated to use symbolic links?
Adam Spelbring
October 31, 2019
How can I tell if I would benefit most from higher single core or multicore performance?
October 22, 2019
What app(s) do we use to write prose?
Charles Clements
October 17, 2019
Why can't we family share contacts?
Dan Stanton
October 10, 2019
Why don't Casey and John join the iPhone Upgrade Program?
Cameron
October 10, 2019
What non-high-tech tech do we enjoy?
Phillipp
October 10, 2019
Why do external drives eject after sleep?
Stever
September 18, 2019
We revisit the "communities" question
Marco Silva
September 18, 2019
When would we hire a professional photographer?
James Gates
August 29, 2019
What does Marco look for in a watch?
James
August 19, 2019
What non-Apple tech makes us happy/excited?
Colin Devroe
August 15, 2019
Do we use portrait orientation lock on our iPads & iPhones?
Tom Tubbs
August 15, 2019
Introducing children to video games, and the correct order of Zelda games
[the other] David Sparks
August 15, 2019
How does one play RTS games on a Mac without a gaming PC?
Nathan
August 8, 2019
How does one deal with impostor syndrome
Ryan Monaghan
August 8, 2019
FaceApp and tin-foil hats
Brad Siefert
August 8, 2019
Siracusa ranks Tennists
Anthony Roberts
August 2, 2019
Most bang-for-your-buck $1000 Mac
BJ Nemeth, among others
July 24, 2019
Naming computers
Ron Olson
July 11, 2019
Catalina's move from bash to zsh?
Pedro Estarque
July 11, 2019
What do we think about mouse pads?
Andy Beyer-Bowden
June 20, 2019
How does John rate movies?
Dan Provost
May 16, 2019
How do we configure Macs used by other family members?
Nick
May 9, 2019
What resources help us be... slightly less ignorant white dudes?
Brie Macnish
May 9, 2019
Is it bad to use high-wattage chargers even though the devices get warm?
Sean Kelker
April 12, 2019
How do version numbers work?
Aadi
April 12, 2019
How do we keep code snippets for reference?
Vincent Steinmann
April 12, 2019
Is Perl dead?
Gustavo Poscidonio
March 15, 2019
Can using AirPods in loud environments cause hearing damage?
March 15, 2019
How do you purge many old apps at once?
Mark Heeler
February 28, 2019
How do we feel about buying refurbished tech products?
David Hadley
February 12, 2019
How does one move from being a beginner to intermediate programmer, especially with code structure?
Ryan Bible
February 12, 2019
What external drives do we recommend?
Steve Lowe
February 7, 2019
Is it worth cleaning dust out of MacBooks?
Oliver Dejon
January 31, 2019
Is it worth upgrading the CPU on a family iMac?
Jeremy Kenison
January 31, 2019
How do we avoid crapping on future tech that we don't inherently understand?
January 24, 2019
What Siri Shortcuts do we use?
Todd Vaziri
January 10, 2019
How does one preserve podcasts?
Fred McCann
January 10, 2019
Apparently something Destiny-related.
Graham Wetzler
January 10, 2019
What does John think about the Nintendo Switch controller?
Josh A.
January 4, 2019
Does Overcast do anything special to inhibit cookies?
Mitch Cohen
December 26, 2018
If Intel got its act together, would Apple cancel any ARM Mac plans and stick with Intel?
December 26, 2018
What's important for a new TV?
Kapila Wimalaratne
December 18, 2018
Why not use Dropbox or equivalent for everything?
Drew Shannon
December 13, 2018
What kind of hardware should one get to run a Plex server?
Justin Winchester
December 13, 2018
How do we balance work and play?
Eric Wagner
December 13, 2018
What is our photo management workflow?
Paul Walker
November 28, 2018
How does Marco do power testing?
Dustin Goldman
November 28, 2018
Can one switch careers into development in one's late-30s?
November 20, 2018
How would we quarterback a x86 → ARM transition?
Cameron Kerr
November 20, 2018
Why do high-end iOS devices need so much less RAM than Macs?
Benedikt Beckmann
November 7, 2018
What's the worse compromise: Fusion Drive or hybrid cars?
Spencer Wohlers
October 11, 2018
Getting started with backups
JD Lewin
September 6, 2018
What's the "cheapest" Apple product?
September 6, 2018
Long-distance Wi-Fi
August 23, 2018
OLED TVs
August 23, 2018
Why isn't there a RSS-like thing for video?
August 16, 2018
Why trust the cloud at all if we can't have future-proof encryption?
August 16, 2018
John's CrashPlan Backups
July 26, 2018
Capturing out-of-warranty hardware
Ali Shah
July 15, 2018
How do I use a 34" monitor?
Andrew Troup
July 15, 2018
Lost picture troubleshooting
Brian Sturm
July 15, 2018
James Veitch gives us a self-destructing envelope
James Veitch
July 2, 2018
How do we maintain multiple development environments?
Pat Murphy
May 31, 2018
Is it important to learn vim or emacs?
Aaron Robeson
May 24, 2018
Is it paranoid to avoid Google?
Luther Richardson
May 24, 2018
What lenses should one get for a Sony α6500?
Peter Johnson
May 24, 2018
What do we think about Volvo adopting Google products for their infotainment?
May 10, 2018
Apple IDs at work
Alex Faber
May 1, 2018
Camera paranoia
Ryan Taylor
May 1, 2018
CarPlay thoughts
John
May 1, 2018
What used Wrangler or convertible would we buy with $15k for weekend fun?
Mike
April 26, 2018
What if the Apple Mac CPU is neither ARM nor x86?
Colin McKellar
April 18, 2018
External GPUs for John?
Josh Rapoport
April 5, 2018
Migrations between Macs
Matt Wallin
March 15, 2018
Polite language in user interfaces
Bill Balinor
March 15, 2018
Are advanced safety features in cars comparable across marques?
February 16, 2018
What's the deal with Leica cameras?
February 16, 2018
Does Casey miss C#/.NET?
February 8, 2018
Single vs. multithreading
February 8, 2018
Meditation
February 8, 2018
Long-term file storage
February 1, 2018
Entry-level open-backed headphones
JD Lewin
December 20, 2017
Holiday gift ideas
December 14, 2017
Should we get rid of paper books?
Josh Keegan
December 7, 2017
AirPower for Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard
November 16, 2017
Mac antivirus software?
November 2, 2017
Would we use Apple OSes on any other hardware if they were theoretically compatible?
November 2, 2017
iPhone SE... X?
October 26, 2017
iOS error-logging frameworks
October 5, 2017
Mike Bolton proposes a typing challenge
October 5, 2017
Being good beta citizens and not making @tapbot_paul angry
September 29, 2017
APFS and Fusion drives
September 29, 2017
Mac Pro & Nvidia
September 21, 2017
iPhone-buying strategies
September 7, 2017
Is 4K worth it?
September 7, 2017
Playing the notoriety card
September 1, 2017
Photo storage between generations
September 1, 2017
Camera advice for beginners
September 1, 2017
Have we had RSI issues?
August 24, 2017