Casey Liss

You've seen a million apps, and you've rocked them all. All right. Do you have any information about leather backs for your iPhone, perchance?

All right. An anonymous Apple genius writes in, all Macs since at least the Intel days are capable of running without a battery connected. It's actually used as a common troubleshooting practice in the Genius Bar. Often swollen batteries, such as what Marco experienced, will cause issues like unexpected shutdowns or slow performance and can even cause the Mac not to boot in certain cases.

All right. An anonymous Apple genius writes in, all Macs since at least the Intel days are capable of running without a battery connected. It's actually used as a common troubleshooting practice in the Genius Bar. Often swollen batteries, such as what Marco experienced, will cause issues like unexpected shutdowns or slow performance and can even cause the Mac not to boot in certain cases.

While not very frequent, we tend to see expanded batteries or spicy pillows, most commonly when the customers left their Mac connected to power for most of its life, similar to Marco's situation with his gaming PC. P.S. I know I said every Mac since the Intel days, but the one exception is the 12-inch MacBook.

While not very frequent, we tend to see expanded batteries or spicy pillows, most commonly when the customers left their Mac connected to power for most of its life, similar to Marco's situation with his gaming PC. P.S. I know I said every Mac since the Intel days, but the one exception is the 12-inch MacBook.

It is a very strangely built machine and a complete nightmare for us technicians to work on. If you disconnect the battery and then plug in anything higher than a 5-watt adapter to let it trickle charge, you will fry the logic board. Most technicians avoid it like the plague.

It is a very strangely built machine and a complete nightmare for us technicians to work on. If you disconnect the battery and then plug in anything higher than a 5-watt adapter to let it trickle charge, you will fry the logic board. Most technicians avoid it like the plague.

Why do you do this to me? Why do you do this to me? Well, that's right. Did you see, by the way, this is an aside, did you see XKCD yesterday? Yeah.

Why do you do this to me? Why do you do this to me? Well, that's right. Did you see, by the way, this is an aside, did you see XKCD yesterday? Yeah.

Clearly, Randall Munroe listens to the show. That's the only reasonable conclusion we can come to. Something like that. All right, so Apple TV Plus is now available as an add-on to Prime Video, which is somewhat unexpected.

Clearly, Randall Munroe listens to the show. That's the only reasonable conclusion we can come to. Something like that. All right, so Apple TV Plus is now available as an add-on to Prime Video, which is somewhat unexpected.

So you can be in Amazon's Prime Video client or what have you, and you can subscribe to Apple TV Plus as another channel in there for the same money you would otherwise pay Apple.

So you can be in Amazon's Prime Video client or what have you, and you can subscribe to Apple TV Plus as another channel in there for the same money you would otherwise pay Apple.

Nice. With regard to, and this is tangentially related to Apple TV+, with regard to Major League Soccer, one of us, it might have been John, had said, hey, okay, well, there you go. All right, Shaggy. Somebody had said, hey, they should make a Drive to Survive style thing for Major League Soccer.

Nice. With regard to, and this is tangentially related to Apple TV+, with regard to Major League Soccer, one of us, it might have been John, had said, hey, okay, well, there you go. All right, Shaggy. Somebody had said, hey, they should make a Drive to Survive style thing for Major League Soccer.

And Devin Dundee writes in to say, Apple has commissioned Box to Box Films, the production company behind Drive to Survive, to document the season, this season of MLS, and create a, quote,

And Devin Dundee writes in to say, Apple has commissioned Box to Box Films, the production company behind Drive to Survive, to document the season, this season of MLS, and create a, quote,

And then additionally, a lot of people wrote in with regard to Lionel Messi. I think I have that pronunciation right this time. And MLS being not very popular, which we had talked about last week. And the consensus that I gleaned from the feedback we got, there were a lot of individual perspectives.

And then additionally, a lot of people wrote in with regard to Lionel Messi. I think I have that pronunciation right this time. And MLS being not very popular, which we had talked about last week. And the consensus that I gleaned from the feedback we got, there were a lot of individual perspectives.

But the one thing that seemed a pretty solid agreement is that, hey, Major League Soccer here in the States, just not the same level of play as over in Europe. It's just not as good.