Accidental Tech Podcast

524: The Anti-Fireplace Lobby

Mar 2, 2023

02:15:31

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Game Consoles Are So Refreshing, Isn't It?

02:19

I Cloud Apple ID Takeover

05:11

How to Stop a Thief From Taking Over Your Apple ID

02:22

Introduction

2min

I've Never Used Twitter, I'm Not a Center Grip Person, Right?

4min

Are You Looking to Stick With 5.1 Speakers?

2min

Are You Going to Rearrange the Fireplace?

3min

The HTA9 - Your House, Your Rules

1min

Who the Hell Is Casey?

2min

I Don't Like Yellow, but I Like Fun Colors

2min

How Many Times Do You Buy Cars?

2min

Rivian's Accent Color Is Yellow, Right?

2min

10.

iCloud Backups - I'm Amazing

5min

11.

Force Quitting Applications

2min

12.

The Apple TV Isn't Immune to Bad Behavior

4min

13.

Continuous Glucose Monitors

5min

14.

Diabetes and Glucose Monitoring

2min

15.

Is It Safe to Do Too Much Insulin?

4min

16.

Is Apple Going to Get Into the Real Time Glucose Monitoring Business?

2min

17.

Sonos Voice Control

3min

18.

Is Your Passcode 12345 Passcode Betrayed?

3min

19.

Is Apple Negligence?

4min

20.

I Cloud Apple ID Takeover

5min

21.

Password Style Code

4min

22.

Face ID Is the Most Difficult Solution

2min

23.

Using Apple's iCloud Keychain to Limit Screen Time

3min

24.

How to Stop a Thief From Taking Over Your Apple ID

2min

25.

How to Protect Your Apple ID Password?

2min

26.

Apple ID Password

6min

27.

Apple ID Password

2min

28.

You Want to Protect Your App Lighting

3min

29.

What Are Your Downstream Speeds?

3min

30.

Plex Streaming

4min

31.

The Utility of Gigabit Connections

6min

32.

How Much Is Sufficient?

2min

33.

How to Limit the Charging Level on Desktop Mac Books?

2min

34.

How to Fix a Battery Issue?

2min

35.

How to Optimize Battery Condition on Your Mac?

2min

36.

Why Is What's Built Into Mac OS Insufficient?

2min

37.

Why Aren't Good iOS Game Devs Making Fun Games?

2min

38.

How to Get Enticing Ads on Instagram

4min

39.

Game Consoles Are So Refreshing, Isn't It?

2min

40.

The Triple a Market Is Different From Mobile Markets

3min

41.

We Don't Let Them Use Them for Very Long

4min

42.

Is There a Way to Limit Screen Time?

4min

43.

What's He Doing?

2min

44.

How to Get to YouTube From Within the App

3min

45.

Screen Recording Is a Cool Tool for Kids

2min

46.

Is Adam's Photo Library a Terabyte?

2min

47.

YouTube Time Limits Are Scary

3min

48.

Kids Discovering YouTube

2min

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)
- 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