664: Humanity Gets in the Way

Accidental Tech Podcast

Nov 06, 2025•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 664

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Pre-show: Casey dropped his 17 Pro
🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- T568A & T568B
  - Idea courtesy Adam Brandon
- Don’t Stop Believin’…
An aside about podcast chapters and Apple’s recent news
Follow-up:
- The current MacBook Pro design is from the M1 (via Ben Mattison)
- More dashed Mac Pro dreams
  - Apple’s internal chip codename nomenclature
  - Variants
    - P = A_
    - G = A_X / A_Z / M_
    - S = M_ Pro
    - C = M_ Max
    - D = M_ Ultra
    - X = M_ Pro/Max/Ultra
  - Examples
    - A11 = H10P
    - A12X = H11G
    - A14 = H13P
    - M1 = H13G
    - M2 Pro = H14S
  - GPUs use G instead of H
  - More island/chip names from 26.1 RC:
- John’s tale of Xcode 26.1 woe
- John’s un-fixed Electron apps
- More clipboard history options in macOS 26.1
- M5 MacBook Pro speed tests
  - MaxTech
Casey has tried the new Developer Strap
- Accessibility → Audio & Visual → Balance
An aside about nanotexture displays
- Marco’s current iPad paper-texture overlay
Casey upgraded to Tahoe
- Funky sidebar icon
/r/overcast
- Under the Radar #330: Engaging with Reddit
- Meltdown in the ProCreate subreddit over a painting of Master Chief
Post-show: Marco plays with 3D printing
- Tinkercad
- Bambu
- Eric Welander’s video about Gridfinity
- Toybox
Members-only ATP Overtime: Joanna Stern tries Neo, the household “robot”
- WSJ Article (or On Apple News+)
- QWOP