524: The Anti-Fireplace Lobby
- Pre-show: Please go decline your Tweetbot/Twitterrific refunds!
- Follow-up:
- John’s COVID project
- mcg’s Experience with the Sony HT-A9
- Larry King’s band’s Rivian Parody
- “Not yellow” ≠ “no fun colors”
- Adam Wunn on iMazing
- Report on the Apple TV remote with touch disabled
- Bad Apple TV news
- Diabetes and blood glucose monitoring
- Diabeetus
- Sonos does allow you to shout requests into the air
- Criminals are shoulder-surfing passcodes and then swiping iPhones
- Mitigation ideas:
- Alphanumeric passcodes
Settings → Face ID & Passcode → Change Passcode → Passcode Options → Custom Alphanumeric Code
- Don’t use iCloud Keychain for banking passwords
- Screen Time
- Settings → Screen Time → Use Screen Time Passcode and don’t use the same passcode
- Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions → Account Changes → Don’t Allow
- Venmo: Me → Settings → Face ID & PIN → Enable Face ID & PIN
- Cash: Icon in the upper-right → Privacy & Security → Security Lock
- #askatp:
- Is symmetric internet — particularly gigabit — worth it? (via Petar Petrović)
- Casey’s original flex
- Casey’s park bench picnic table
- Casey downloads a Xcode beta
- WRT54G
- Do we use AlDente or Battery to manually limit charging
levels? (via MaxLaves)
- Coconut Battery
- Battery GitHub issue
- Why doesn’t anyone make fun but not-creepy games? (via Brian Hamilton)
- Post-show: Marco loses a war of YouTube attrition to Adam
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