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622: Duplicate Garbage Generation Process

144 min episode · 2 min read

Episode

144 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Productivity, Product & Tech Trends, Science & Discovery

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Key Takeaways

  • AirPods Case Battery Alert: The descending tone AirPods cases emit indicates 40% or less battery remaining, a feature introduced via recent firmware update that can be disabled in settings under case charging sounds, though settings require AirPods to be actively connected to modify.
  • RGB Mini-LED Backlight Technology: Hisense's 116UX television uses tri-chroma LED backlights with separate red, green, and blue LEDs per zone instead of white or blue, achieving 97% BT.2020 color space coverage versus 75-80% for QD-OLED, though priced at $30,000 limits consumer accessibility.
  • MediaTek Pentonic 800 Chipset: The new MediaTek chip finally supports four full-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports, enabling TV manufacturers beyond LG and Samsung to offer complete high-speed connectivity across all ports, potentially appearing in 2025 flagship televisions from Sony and other brands using MediaTek components.
  • Budget 6K Monitor Option: The Asus PA32QCV delivers 32-inch 6K resolution matching the Pro Display XDR for $1,200 with Thunderbolt 4, 96-watt power delivery, and built-in KVM, though lacking mini-LED backlight and HDR capabilities, representing significant value for resolution-focused users over display quality.
  • Corporate Political Donations: Tim Cook's personal million-dollar donation to Trump's inauguration committee, matching contributions from other tech CEOs, represents strategic business positioning for tariff exemptions and regulatory relief, though raises ethical concerns about enabling corruption versus protecting employee retirement funds dependent on Apple's stock performance.

What It Covers

ATP episode 622 covers AirPods sound mysteries solved through listener feedback, CES television technology including Hisense's RGB backlight innovation, Tim Cook's million-dollar donation to Trump's inauguration committee sparking ethical debate, and John Siracusa announcing his duplicate file finder app named Hyperspace.

Key Questions Answered

  • AirPods Case Battery Alert: The descending tone AirPods cases emit indicates 40% or less battery remaining, a feature introduced via recent firmware update that can be disabled in settings under case charging sounds, though settings require AirPods to be actively connected to modify.
  • RGB Mini-LED Backlight Technology: Hisense's 116UX television uses tri-chroma LED backlights with separate red, green, and blue LEDs per zone instead of white or blue, achieving 97% BT.2020 color space coverage versus 75-80% for QD-OLED, though priced at $30,000 limits consumer accessibility.
  • MediaTek Pentonic 800 Chipset: The new MediaTek chip finally supports four full-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports, enabling TV manufacturers beyond LG and Samsung to offer complete high-speed connectivity across all ports, potentially appearing in 2025 flagship televisions from Sony and other brands using MediaTek components.
  • Budget 6K Monitor Option: The Asus PA32QCV delivers 32-inch 6K resolution matching the Pro Display XDR for $1,200 with Thunderbolt 4, 96-watt power delivery, and built-in KVM, though lacking mini-LED backlight and HDR capabilities, representing significant value for resolution-focused users over display quality.
  • Corporate Political Donations: Tim Cook's personal million-dollar donation to Trump's inauguration committee, matching contributions from other tech CEOs, represents strategic business positioning for tariff exemptions and regulatory relief, though raises ethical concerns about enabling corruption versus protecting employee retirement funds dependent on Apple's stock performance.

Notable Moment

The revelation that AirPods periodically play quiet diagnostic chimes while sitting in their closed charging case to test microphones and speakers for hearing health features surprised listeners who had heard mysterious sounds but never understood their purpose, validating widespread confusion about undocumented audio feedback.

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Episode Transcript

So it turns out I am tired and it is entirely my fault this time. What'd you do? I decided this would be a good day to get, like, all of my medical to do items done. And so, not only does that include a trip to the dentist, which is never fun, but I also now have four new holes poked in me, I think. Oh, lovely. Three different vaccines and a blood test. So I'm I'm, in line for my shingles vaccine now that I'm 50. Oh, congratulations. So exciting. Some more vaccines open up to me. Yeah. I think I have to get that one twice. Yeah. Do you have a party for that? Or That's fine. If you haven't had chickenpox, what you get instead is the chickenpox vaccine that prevents you from ever getting chickenpox. But too late for old people. Didn't exist when we were kids. The problems of being born in the nineteen hundreds. Mhmm. Alright. We have a bunch of follow-up to go through. We have a lot of AirPod related follow-up. This this is so funny to me in a good way. I almost didn't talk about this because I thought maybe I'm an idiot, maybe I didn't maybe I'm the only one who doesn't understand these noises, so on and so forth. And this actually got quite a bit of traction both in terms of feedback and some other stuff, which we'll talk about in a minute. But we have, thanks to the magic of friend of the show, Guy Rambo, and, you might know Guy because of AirBuddy, which does a lot of really fancy and fun Bluetooth stuff with your Mac and other devices. Also, what was the name of the, keyboard silencer thing that we've been talking about on on and off for the last few weeks, which I'm drawing on from. Keyboard Buddy? Is everything Buddy? I think that's right. I think it is Keyboard Buddy or something like that. It's a very friendly category of software. It is very friendly, and so is Guy. Anyway, thanks to Guy. We have actually some sample audio that we can play for you. And thanks to Marco, it should play not only for John and I, but more importantly, for those of you listening, even those of you listening live. So, we're gonna go through a bunch of feedback. And the funny thing about this feedback is I am pretty darn confident that we have discovered the genesis of one of the or actually, two of the noises, one of which I was talking about, one of which I wasn't. But there's yet another noise that I'm still not sure what the what the Genesis what the purpose is for this noise. Let me get to the feedback. Zach says, I have the same model of AirPods Pro as Casey, and I feel like there was a firmware update in the last few months that introduced a new …

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Tools

  • HyperspaceBy guest

    by John Siracusa

    John Siracusa announcing his duplicate file finder app named Hyperspace

Gear

  • by Hisense

    Hisense's 116UX television uses tri-chroma LED backlights with separate red, green, and blue LEDs per zone instead of white or blue, achieving 97% BT.2020 color space coverage
  • by MediaTek

    The new MediaTek chip finally supports four full-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports, enabling TV manufacturers beyond LG and Samsung to offer complete high-speed connectivity
  • by Asus

    The Asus PA32QCV delivers 32-inch 6K resolution matching the Pro Display XDR for $1,200 with Thunderbolt 4, 96-watt power delivery, and built-in KVM
  • by Apple

    The Asus PA32QCV delivers 32-inch 6K resolution matching the Pro Display XDR for $1,200

Products

  • by Apple

    The revelation that AirPods periodically play quiet diagnostic chimes while sitting in their closed charging case to test microphones and speakers for hearing health features surprised listeners

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