659: Lose the Ear Lottery

Accidental Tech Podcast

Oct 02, 2025•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 659

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Episode description

Pre-show: Eh, that’ll keep…
- M5 iPad Pro
- FCC leaks
🗣️ St. Jude time is almost done! 🗣️
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Computer Science Curriculum
Follow-up:
- ATP in the wild (via Mark Christian & Richard Earney)
- iOS 26.0.1 allegedly fixes N1 Wi-Fi/BT issues
  - CarlinKit wireless CarPlay dongle
- What does iCloud back up? (via Dayton Lovell)
- iCloud for Messages
  - A ringing endorsement from Nick
  - A potential fix for ∞ GIFs (via Nathan)
- iPhone Transfers
  - Why not pre-populate them, Kindle-style? (via Winnie Lewis)
  - TestFlight is… better now? (via Daniel Nelson)
  - Some thoughts from Nick
- Apple’s onboarding enshittification (via Imthaz)
- Thought to text & AlterEgo
  - Firefox (1982)
  - Prior MIT project (via Hannes)
  - CJ’s thoughts
    - Preview video
    - EMG
    - EEG
More first impressions
Ask ATP:
- How do we really know if something is encrypted? (via Joshua Wold)
- What is the point of neural engine cores, anyway? (via Tom Cole)
  - SIMD
  - Evaluating the Apple Silicon M-Series SoCs for HPC Performance & Efficiency
  - AMX Units
  - Neural Engine
- Does filling a phone SSD slaughter performance? (via Sean Harding)
Post-show: Marco’s USB odyssey
- CalDigit Thunderbolt Element 4
- BLE caberQu
Members-only ATP Overtime: NAS Noodling
- Synology [sorta] says third-party drives will be supported in the future
  - Synology Solution Day 2025 teaser video
- Ubiquiti’s new NAS units
  - UNAS 2
  - UNAS 4