608: Boot to Toot

Pre-show: Casey’s oops Magic TrackPad Magic Keyboard Marco’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard Follow-up: Casey may have fixed his notification problem! Mac-“Arsed” Mac App skill (via Bart Reardon) RAMAgeddon Feel free to donate to St. Jude any of the money you may have saved by buying e ...  Show more

Pre-show: Who’s bored? 🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps Follow-up: Nugs and Sonos As the prophecy foretold… ☹️ Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t Rumors about Siri AI indexing Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist) Price increases abound! ☹️ On the Apple ...  Show more

This week, the guys celebrate the release of a new HomePod mini and the Public Betas, then talk about the new versions of UTM, Delta, and Overcast. 

The tech everyone should have, our device strategies for planes, Apple's new Distraction Control feature, and the apps we want to control via Siri. 

Our preferred external storage solutions, favorite collaboration tools, motivations for smartphone upgrades, and thoughts on the potential for a Skynet-level AI scenario in our lifetime. 

Bonnets off to the BBC, the trouble with headlines, Socrates on mountain skis, some slight existential dread about Mac software, irrational love of old computers, Apple's smart home strategy for 2025, and the long wait for some AI features.