Pre-show: Strong corporate affinities Neutral #12: Vomit Ruins Everything — Marco & Casey’s BMW European Delivery experience Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now — Marco, Casey, and Underscore’s BMW Driving School experience Follow-up: Tesla Model S/X round steering wheel Touch controlls are force-touch? Elon says “no more stalks” NHTSA Limiting Siri’s Messages Announcements Telling Siri to 🤫 Developer Transition Kit returns iOS 14.5 Beta adds support for unlocking iPhone with Apple Watch while wearing a face mask Gruber’s take Apple replies to one of John’s old Radars TN1150 Sony ɑ1 Canon EOS-1D X #askatp Do we use CleanMyMac X/OnyX/etc? (via Donald Rabideau) DaisyDisk Space Gremlin Grand Perspective Does a small amount of RAM limit SSD lifespan? (via Dan Blondell) How do simultaneous writes to a SSD work? (via Jan Philipp) Would Apple ever offer iCloud Backup for macOS? (via Aidan Trager) Backblaze Post-show: Marco is snowed in Point O’ Woods Lonelyville Rize Blade Sondors Sponsored by: Flatfile: Spend less time formatting spreadsheet data, and more time using it. Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $100 credit. Away: Start your 100-day trial and shop Away’s entire lineup of travel essentials, including their best-selling suitcases. Become a member for ad-free episodes and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

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