660: It’s All Chicken Salad

• Pre-show: Marco’s “Vacation” results

• Goose (goosetheband.com)

• Goose @ Richmond Allianz Ampitheater, 3 October 2025 (goosetheband.bandcamp.com/album/2025-10-03-all…)

• Allianz Ampitheater (allianzamphitheater.com)

• Chicken Salad Chick (chickensaladchick.com)

• Nugs.net (nugs.net/goose-concerts-live-downloads-in-mp3-…)

• ZZQ (zzqrva.com)

• Suggestions from Casey, in no particular order:

• Hungersite (song.link/i/1762041680)

• Give it Time (song.link/i/1762041682)

• How it Ends (song.link/i/1747066134)

• Dripfield (song.link/i/1762041699)

• Follow-up:

• ATP in the wild

• Original report form Richard Earney (toot.community/@methodphoto/115247421044837829)

• Follow-up by Matt Smith (mastodon.social/@mttsmth/115305279345327099)

• Follow-up on Mark Christian’s report by Santiago Hervella

• AirPods 3

• Ear Lottery

• Michael corroborates Marco’s experience (mastodon.xyz/@mi/115305290869146269)

• …but Franklin Delano Stallone offers hope (mastodon.social/@fds/115305354722813426)

• …and sometimes AirPods 3 are a marked improvement, reports Matthew Schaffer

• Tony Dehnke does an ANC comparison (mastodon.social/@tonydehnke/115310181018840721)

• Live translation (support.apple.com/en-us/123185) results

• David Schaub’s horror story (mstdn.social/@dschaub/115305162451894517) about filling up your phone

• Mike Taffet does science on iPhone ↔ iPhone transfers (mastodon.social/@miketaffet/115283320031913160)

• Marco’s USB odyssey

• Jack Wellborn had a similar experience (mastodon.social/@jackwellborn/115317776661170069)

• Syd Polk wonders if it’s a Sequoia thing (mastodon.social/@sydpolk/115334097453908335)

• (Among others) Fabien theorizes its’ an alignment thing (mastodon.social/@fabienmarry/115316557753953892)

• Keith Heaton brought receipts (cdn.atp.fm/images/20251006-usb-c-pins.jpg)

• Tailgate Tub (caseyliss.com/2024/6/13/tailgate-tub)

• Active vs. passive Thunderbolt cables (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)#Cables)

• OWC (owc.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about…)

• Informative Reddit comment by LaughingMan11 (reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/y5uokj/comm…)

• Synology alternatives

• Colin McKellar suggests QNAP (qnap.com)

• See also:

• UGREEN (nas.ugreen.com)

• Unraid (unraid.net)

• FreeNAS (truenas.com/freenas)/TrueNAS (truenas.com)

• …

• 🎉 …may not be necessary anymore! (synology.com/en-us/company/news/article/dsm73) 🎉

• Coverage from Guru3D (guru3d.com/story/synology-reverses-policy-bann…)

• SpaceRex on YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=dltc_PLvopI)

• Lee Hutchinson at Ars Technica (arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/synology-caves…)

• More more first impressions

• Quick AirPods Pro 3 update

• iPhone case updates

• Omar Shahine performs surgery on the Nomad back (social.seattle.wa.us/@omar/115336304724775745)

• Torras clear case (amazon.com/dp/B0FGC7CXZ9?tag=marcoorg-20)

• Bullstrap open-bottom leather case (bullstrap.co/products/magsafe-iphone-cases-bla…)

• Peak Design Everyday Case (peakdesign.com/products/everyday-case-for-ipho…) (Charcoal color has the good fabric)

• Still to test: Süti PhoneBack (suti.co/products/iphone-17-phoneback?variant=5…) in black leather, if it ever ships

• iOS 16

• iPadOS 26: Now with slide-over! (macrumors.com/2025/10/06/ipados-26-1-slide-ove…)

• Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store (theverge.com/news/791170/iceblock-app-store-re…)

• Previously, in Hong Kong (theverge.com/2019/10/10/20907596/apple-hong-ko…)

• Tim’s explanation (theverge.com/2019/10/10/20908498/apple-ceo-tim…)

• Response letter (theverge.com/2019/10/18/20921300/rebulicans-de…)

• Reuters’ take (reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/appl…)

• MJ Tsai (mjtsai.com/blog/2025/10/03/iceblock-removed-fr…)

• Gurman on Apple succession (bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-05/who-…)

• Post-show: Pour one a Sprite out for a real one TiVo (mediaplaynews.com/tivo-exiting-legacy-dvr-busi…)

• Channels (getchannels.com)

• AOL dialup service ends (tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-pro…)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: The Meta Ray-Ban Display (meta.com/ai-glasses/meta-ray-ban-display), and Apple’s response

• The Verge (theverge.com/tech/779566/meta-ray-ban-display-…)

• Gurman: Apple pivots (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-01/apple-s…)

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