Breaking Change

It is Wednesday, my dudes! This is normally a weekend listen, but there are new Macs to talk about. I wanted to give you the absolute freshest, least accurate information I can about all these neat new computers that I WILL NOT BE BUYING BECAUSE TIM COOK IS A COWARD. Write something you want to say in all caps over at podcast@searls.co and maybe I'll scream it on the show! Inside-voice links follow: The new Kindle Paperwhite Black plastic is worse, now. Egg yolks are back to being good Fancy Shun knives at a reasonable price Don't waste your money on this combination sleeping mask / Bluetooth speaker iOS 18 Hearing Test Ricky Mondello's Apple Passwords migration strategy My new fuckthis.app platform Eric Doggett is helping me learn how to take pictures Aaron's puns, ranked New M4 Macs BUT NO 12" MACBOOKS TO SPEAK OF Can't wait to see The Rock star in the Apple Oregon Trail movie GitHub's new Copilot and Spark announcements Redditors Are Trying to Poison Google's AI to Keep Tourists Out of the Good Restaurants One man's high-end electric vehicle is another man's obsolete garbage Star Trucker game Call of Duty: Blops 6

Welcome to this podcast which, by now, you have probably decided you either listen to or don't listen to! And if you don't listen to it, one wonders why you are reading this. Remember to write in at podcast@searls.co with suggestions for news stories and whatever you'd like me to talk about. Please keep it PG-rated or NC-17 rated. I want nothing in between. Family-friendly and/or sexually explicit links follow: I returned this razor How I fixed Photo Shuffle I made an unfortunate comment about birds and hands in my newsletter Koala Nap is not currently working for me, but I appreciate their responsiveness in trying to fix it Aaron's puns, ranked 🚨 RoboCab Code White 🚨 Matt Mullenwag sounds like a real piece of work at work Alien: Romulus is coming to VHS. Really Grindr will soon Grind without you Apple's next 4 Vision Devices according to Mark Gurman iPad Mini 7 Diablo IV - Vessel of Hatred I hope Dragon Age: Veilguard redeems Bioware Strange Planet was a cool show The Family is creepy Struggling to care about Slow Horses Got schmutz? Get a Zodiac MX8 Elite

Get ready for a three-hour-plus Breaking Change spectacular! Why is it special? I'm not going to tell you. You'll just have to listen. Remember, money doesn't change hands when you consume this Content™, but that doesn't make it free! In exchange for downloading this MP3, the license requires you to write in to podcast@searls.co at least once every three episodes. Some of y'all are past due, and I know where to find you. Want URLs? I got URLs: This useless skinny tree fell over Becky's first app is live at betterwithbecky.com I bought a camera I gave my final conference talk. Video is pending, but I'll link to it here when it's up Aaron's puns, ranked Apple: 1, Europe: 0 Google should figure out security architecture A nice longread about where AI is and where it (may) be going over the next decade I'm bearish on IBM's prospects 1Password 8 doesn't feel like an upgrade The iPhone 16 Pro is all about camera styles and tone map customization Can't wait for that 12" MacBook Pro The new Reduce Interruptions focus mode Folks are mad about Star Wars Outlaws Star Trucker, a game I mistakenly called "Space Trucker" Furiosa is good The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives isn't Penguin is remarkable 2 episodes in 🫡

There have now been 20 major versions since the initial release of Breaking Change, but this is one of the less bad ones. It was substantially improved by friend of the show, Eric Doggett, who helped out with mixing! If you have strong feelings about anything you hear, you know where to stuff those feelings (other than "deep, deep down"): podcast@searls.co. Spicier-than-usual show notes follow: Kin Euphorics are usually non-alcoholic overpriced cocktails Squarespace kinda sucks now and a lot of people are worried the new PE overlords are gonna kill it Build with Becky soft-launched, but it's stealth so you're on your own to figure out the sign-up URL. My newsletter that's reminded some people of my impossibly, unfairly high standards Nifty Cyberpunk VR mod Aaron's puns, ranked Apple Event stuff Rest in Playercount, Concord Remember to make sure your surgeon can tell a spleen and a liver apart before they put you under All aboard Florida's manslaughter express 🚂🚂 The PS5 Pro is the solution to a problem, but nobody's sure which Open AI o1-preview is significantly less stupid Thanks to our sponsor for all your ERP needs, Oracle Netsuite Star Wars Outlaws Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Don't start a Civil War Welcome to Wrexham Season 3 For any chumps out there who think listening is the key to persuasion @tompng's awesome Ruby Kaigi keynote now has a video you can watch Walkshop is a super cool way to run a retreat 🌶️

It is me, I am back! And after working too hard and becoming too dull I'm finally done* with that big app I've been working on. I'm running behind on e-mails and need your best and worst takes for the next episode: podcast@searls.co. Find out what that asterisk refers to below: Filing an FCC complaint Supermaven The git logo iMessage via satellite Aaron's puns, ranked Meta cancels their 2027 Vision Pro competitor A bunch of random, disturbing Black Myth: Wukong links Ford might start making cars again (News+) The Acolyte and review-bombing SmartLess: On the Road Deathloop Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand Star Wars Outlaws Adam Mcrea's Alpine/Phlex screencast *I am, in fact, not at all done.

Boy, have I got a great show for you today! I guess. You be the judge. If you listen to the podcast, please rate it on a scale from Good Charlotte to My Chemical Romance at podcast@searls.co. The following links are included with your subscription: Macrofactor app Butterfly keyboard checks going out My tutorial on real-time model broadcasts in Rails Aaron's pun Physical game sales are finally in decline Intel's processors are borked Flighty's latest update is an example of "Good" "AI" The M4 Mac Mini Mini Google banning accounts for CSAM when there may not be CSAM Loki is fine Deadpool & Wolverine is fiiiine

I hope you like stories about moaning during a couples massage, bugs with Apple's Home Key system, and when it's OK to duplicate code in software. Because that's most of what I got this time. Not enough of you are writing in, and if you don't start soon I am going to CANCEL this PODCAST production PERMANENTLY: podcast@searls.co. (Write in or else.) Some proof of work: Aaron's pun SearchGPT The Crowdstrike thing Windows Kernel access to third parties Pete Buttigieg reads angry Delta tweets Legitimate LLC The Boys (I failed to explain what this show is or the basic premise, so here's a Wikipedia link. Whoops!) Gary Larsen's The Far Side comic

Big day: now with transition music! 🎶 There's one topic that's been dominating headlines for the last two weeks, but if you want to hear about it you'll have to look elsewhere! That's because Breaking Change is a safe space. So listen up and let's find other things to get mad about. Do you have opinions about politics? Do you want to share them with an Internet friend? Now's your chance: podcast@searls.co. (Other topics also welcome.) I heard you like links: A "recipe" blog post on how to use Turbo Streams to swap out content This month's newsletter about work pressure My Vision Pros interview Today's pun, ranked Tim Cook uses Vision Pro every day All the ways Japan is trying to stop you from visiting (News+) White-collar Work is Just Meetings Now (News+) Star Trek Discovery Steve! (Martin) documentary Remembering Gene Wilder Airfoil Satellite for Windows Airplay Star Wars: Jedi Survivor Sunny (Apple TV) Objectified film

I bought a new gadget! And it runs Android! And I don't hate it! Tell me about things you hate and don't hate and I might just read your feelings on air, for others to have opinions about! The e-mail, as always, is podcast@searls.co. Sources below: Ubiquiti UniFi Loopback with SSL2+ This annoying Safari bug My first video clip from Breaking Change A podcast I will appear on shortly: Vision Pros Aaron's punboard The EU won't get these new Apple features Gruber's take on this matches my own The BOOX Palma Digital Foundry tells us not to play games on our Windows + Copilot PCs Dark Matter Godzilla Minus One samus.link

WWDC came and went and now we're all just left to ponder what life will be like under the thumb of our new AI overlords (and underlords). But at least for now, humans are still allowed to produce podcasts on their own, which means we can safely opine about the fresh hell we're all hard at work creating. I finally got a chance to get to some mailbag questions in this episode! If you want to be a part of the ✨magic🪄, shoot me an e-mail to podcast@searls.co. I won't read your last name on air, unless I accidentally do. Promise! Here are some links to stuff from this episode: Tiana's Bayou Adventure Flash Mountain Jock Lindsey and his hangar bar Koala Nap Sandwich's Theater app and how they live-streamed the Talk Show Three Simple Rules to using my large language model Dear AI companies, please scrape this website My growing POSSE thanks to feed2thread Aaron's v14 pun My WWDC appearance on the Changelog Ben Thompson being mostly right, as usual Apple suspends work on the Vision Pro 2 Mouse Jigglers!!!! More bad security news for Microsoft because memos alone aren't a real solution The Xbox Games Showcase was good The Nintendo Profit machine seems set to roll on Jim Henson: Idea Man Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds Ashley Madison documentary Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok cult Diablo IV