680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese

680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese

From Accidental Tech Podcast by Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

February 27, 2026 · 2h 35m · Episode 680

About this episode

The hosts discuss various technology topics including smart home devices, automotive innovations, and processor value.

Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow blows woes TruFuel Follow-up: Casey got the CableCARD email 😭 YoLink alternatives (via Joe) IKEA Matter-over-Thread announcement KLIPPBOK (leak sensor) BILRESA (remote control) MYGGSPRAY (motion sensor) House batteries & V2H / V2L (via Russel Prouse) F-150 Lightning On the value of M𝑥 Pro processors (via Rick Baumhauer ) Tahoe window resizing workaround (via Nathan Manceaux-Panot ) defaults write -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize 8 defaults delete -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize macOS document model …was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 …and noted in the beginning of the Mac OS X 10.8 review Final Cut Pro X does auto-save (via Ian Robinson ) Technical details (via Videoalex ) Microsoft Office 365 also auto-saves onto OneDrive in Windows (via Éric ) Saving files in Xcode (via Alex Kent) Returning to Save As… (via Eric deRuiter ) System Settings Desktop & Dock → disable Close windows when quitting an application Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts create an entry under All Applications for Save As… (using an ellipsis by typing ⌥ ; ) and assign it to ⌘⇧S Notepad++ (via Emily Campbell) Alternative to Due (via Patrick Dumontel ) GoodTask…

Topics covered

  • technology
  • smart home
  • automotive
  • processors
  • batteries

Keywords

  • CableCARD
  • YoLink
  • IKEA Matter
  • F-150 Lightning
  • M𝑥 Pro processors

Mentioned in this episode

Products: TruFuel, CableCARD, BILRESA, F-150 Lightning, M𝑥 Pro, Tahoe, macOS, Mac OS X 10.7, Mac OS X 10.8, Final Cut Pro X

Places: US

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