704: Past the Ternus Horizon

• Pre-show: Marco has a rose and thorn

  • Lutron Caséta Fan Control
  • Fanimation
  • Technology Connections video

• Follow-up:

  • Marco’s favorite feedback (about Myke) was from Analog(ue) 😬

    • SQLite bug write-up
    • Blackbird

  • Post-show Neutral

    • Professional negotiators / “headhunters” are very much a thing

      • CarEdge (via John Siracusa)

      • Delivrd (via Roger Coxon)

        • Wall Street Journal (News+ link)

      • The Car Chick (via Juan Boyce)

        • The #1 trusted automotive expert for women and smart men
      • Your Car Buying Advocate (via Ian McCullough)

      • Two options from Colin Macdonald

        • Automatch Consulting
        • Insight Auto Consulting

    • Casey makes some discoveries over the last week

      • Justification from the midwest dealer
      • Ventilated seats
      • Laser headlights
    • Marco takes a spin as well
  • John’s passwords pro-tip

  • Codex Micro (via St. Chris)

    • Icon keys
  • John and Casey weep for a while about Verizon CableCARDs 😭

  • Backups

    • Time Machine has a fatal flaw (via Jonathan Dechko)

    • …but also a workaround (via Eric Jacobsen)

      • Transcend JetDrive
      • BaseQi Adapter
    • Are backups even necessary? (via Mustapha Hamoui)

  • Apple Upgrade

    • Lease agreements are between customer & financier, not the retailer (via Patch)
    • Apple Card also has 12 months interest-free (via Andrew Haglund)

  • RAMpocalypse

    • Apple is still trying to make fetch Chinese RAM happen
    • iPhone 18 Pro launch is looking… challenging
    • All of 2027’s memory made by the big 3 is sold out (🇹🇼 link) (via Kevin Beaumont)

• New macOS & iOS 27 β5 icons

  • Siri
  • Chess
  • John pours one out for his homie
  • Keir’s observation about icon composition
  • Safari
  • Preview
  • Settings

• Apple Watch overhaul rumors

  • The Casio watch everyone has (it’s small; here’s a bigger one if you want, or a more modern one with step-counting)
• John’s Passwords pro tip
• Post-show: John’s macOS update woes

• Members-only ATP Overtime: More AI hardware rumors

  • Is OpenAI making a hockey puck or a doughnut?
  • Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

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