639: Crimp the World

• Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook Pro

• CalDigit TS5 (caldigit.com/thunderbolt-5-dock-ts5)

• Follow-up:

• Letterboxd (letterboxd.com) SF Symbol

• Procured via volunteer Alyce D! 💙

• Custom Symbols App (apps.apple.com/us/app/custom-symbols/id1566662…) (App Store link)

• AI App Store summaries != spam email filtering (via Kevin Markham)

• “A fine is a price” (via Kieran Healy (mastodon.social/@kjhealy/114383866455724010))

• A Fine is a Price by Gneezy & Rustichini (jstor.org/stable/10.1086/468061)

• Apple 🤝🏻 Anthropic (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-02/apple-a…)

• Apple appeals App Store rule changes (theverge.com/news/663361/apple-halt-app-store-…)

• Riley Testut details (mastodon.social/@rileytestut/114467974850043566) changes to Delta (deltaemulator.com)’s IAP options

• More (mastodon.social/@rileytestut/114496753561056604) (Ed: 🤣🤣🤣)

• Meanwhile, in the App Store… (mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/14/critical-warning-fo…)

• Home networking corner

• Ubiquiti (ui.com)’s consumer line is Amplifi (amplifi.com)

• Try CubiCasa (cubi.casa/floor-plans) for floor plans (via Colin Robertson)

• What Unifi Stuff Should I Buy? (whatunifistuffshouldibuy.com) (via Thunder God Cid (bsky.app/profile/tgcid.bsky.social/post/3looab…))

• Casey’s sitrep

• 2× U6-LR (techspecs.ui.com/unifi/wifi/u6-lr) installed

• Ugly PoE injectors (amzn.to/42TZOsR)

• 10GbE card installed in Synology (amzn.to/433m1Vz)

• Switches just arrived

• Lite 8 PoE (store.ui.com/us/en/products/usw-lite-8-poe)

• Flex Mini (store.ui.com/us/en/category/switching-utility/…)

• Camera time?

• Apple Turnover (hypercritical.co/2025/05/09/apple-turnover)

• The Art of the Possible (hypercritical.co/2020/06/20/the-art-of-the-pos…)

• Hypercritical #42: The Wrong Guy (hypercritical.fireside.fm/42)

• Upgrade #563: Peanut or a Banana (relay.fm/upgrade/563)

• Some fun Apple media

• Search Engine: The Dave and Busters Anomaly (searchengine.show/the-dave-and-busters-anomaly)

• Gui Rambo’s investigation (rambo.codes/posts/2025-05-12-cracking-the-dave…)

• A conversation with Jony Ive (youtube.com/watch?v=wLb9g_8r-mE)

• Backblaze drama (mjtsai.com/blog/2025/04/29/backblaze-business-…)

Backblaze is a former ATP sponsor

• Morpheus Research report (morpheus-research.com/backblaze)

• Backblaze’s initial response (arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/backblaze-resp…)

• Backblaze’s formal response (backblaze.com/blog/setting-the-record-straight)

• Profit breakdowns (talk.macpowerusers.com/t/is-backblaze-as-a-bus…)

• Post-show: More restaurant-tech MVPs

• Cable Matters (cablematters.com)

• Marco’s crimping toolkit (amazon.com/dp/B0B6FGY947?tag=marcoorg-20)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: SSD data doesn’t last forever (tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpower…)

• Video (youtube.com/watch?v=rx3Y5x6uzKQ)

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

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