I HATE APPLE

GTA 5 gave me $500,000 in virtual dollars. Apple can do the same.

Hey people! my dad has a line on a used rmbp for $1250 and a used 2011 mbp for $1000. I'm trying to talk him into getting the retina with future proofing as my argument. Am I correct in thinking the retina is a much better deal? What other talking points should I be considering?

accessing network shares (i.e. my synology box) has become a nightmare, no matter what protocol i use :(

the only way i can get anything to work is Cmd-K then accessing my box via "cifs://" which i don't like to do, because that's the protocol for corny indie fucs

xposting from ITR because FUCK APPLE:

FYI Apple computers are really fucking annoying when something goes wrong with them

My 2009 iMac's DVD drive began to refuse to eject CDs the other day. I took it into the Genius Bar to have them get the CD out, which they were able to do. However, the drive now thinks it has a blank DVD in it even though it's empty. Furthermore, the drive makes horrible grinding noises every time the computer wakes up. I can replace the internal drive for over $150 or I could buy an external drive for cheaper; I can't get a Super Drive though because the firmware EXPRESSLY FORBIDS them from working together. Finally, the support for the machine is about to be end-of-life'd anyway due to its age.

Oh, and also the display is starting to show discoloration and will cost something like $500 to replace if I decide to do so.

If this had happened with a PC, I could have opened the DVD drive myself and replaced it myself, resolving this whole fucking thing in maybe 90 minutes. Speaking of which, I may be getting a PC this weekend because this fucking machine irks me.

buy a pc and if you want to get rid of windows use Linux - apple is a waste of money - unless you'r e rich

lol optical drives

if you have a way of digitizing 2000+ CDs that doesn't require an optical drive, I'm all ears

throw them out and start again. print is dead.

even worse, digitizing 2000 vinyl records

you can't use a generic USB cd/dvd burner?

I can, yes. I still need to make an appointment to have them disconnect the internal DVD drive so that it stops attempting to claw its way out of the case every time I start up.

borrow half a dozen external drives, rip six discs at a time, give drives back when done

my macbook has a optical drive spasm at weird times too - like if I go to open a file or something - maye its looking at all possible places a file could be or something

also my OS is obsolete and I cannot upgrade due to hardware - F U apple!!

also they were playing "How Soon Is Now?" while dude at the Genius Bar was running diagnostics and I was singing along and dude looked up at me, grinned, and asked "Rockin' out to some Depeche Mode, huh?"

I mean, come on

going to use this opportunity to share that I spent ten minutes thinking my computer was fucked up because I kept putting a blu-ray disc in the blu-ray drive I'd installed, and it kept ejecting the wrong drive tray

it turns out the blu-ray drive was the top one and I was just repeatedly putting a bd in the dvd drive
xp

lolol

YOushoudl have said "yes I LOVE depeche mode, especially when they had Lol Tolhurst!!"

haha perfect

LOOOL kids these days xps

this "kid" was mmmmmmmmaybe 3 years younger than me

or he's led an extraordinarily tough life, dude was weathered

always thought it was " I am the sun and the air" transcendental Moz

why would apple name its shithead minions "geniuses" - to make them more hate-able?

my gf's ipad had the "phantom dock connector" issue where the sound would not switch back to the internal speaker. apple incredibly gives you no way to manually force the device to use its own speaker. (just how stupid this is: you could trick the device in skype to use the internal speaker but as soon as you try most any other app - back to 'dock connector'). resetting it didn't work. restoring it didn't work. jailbreaking it and deleting one stupid preference file, that worked. -_-

I'll buy an ipad when they are 20 bucks

I recently opened up my macbook pro and replaced the optical drive with an SSD. It's really not that hard to open up and remove it. Macsales sells drives and probably suplies instructions.

you could open the imac and just disconnect it?

at this point I'd be game to do that; I didn't see a clear way into the machine, which is why I took it to the Genius Bar

also they were playing "How Soon Is Now?" while dude at the Genius Bar was running diagnostics and I was singing along and dude looked up at me, grinned, and asked "Rockin' out to some Depeche Mode, huh?"

I mean, come on

― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, February 4, 2014 10:19 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha, you met one of the guys who used to live inside Napster.

I'm tired of simple things like not being able to take a screenshot of a DVD. Not being able to charge Apple products with the 3rd-party USB ports that I've been using for years prior to Mavericks. Not having an "Always Deny" option for keychain passwords. Fucking having to hit the Alt button now to view MY LIBRARY.

I've already talked about the colors and tagging. I'll settle down instead.

colors and tagging issue SUCKS.

I think Onyx or some other free utilities let you make the library folders permanently visible.

at this point I'd be game to do that; I didn't see a clear way into the machine, which is why I took it to the Genius Bar

― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, February 4, 2014 11:54 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iMac

pp, in mavericks, open your home folder and tick the show library option in view options

Thanks, Clippy.

Third-party USB adapters seem to finally be able to charge my iPhone/Pad. Maybe it's an iOS7 thing?

It could be. The old ipod/iphone works, but the new mini doesn't.

Worst part is the little box that comes up and says "Your Mini iPad isn't charging." It KNOWS there's a mini iPad there. It even takes the time to flash a little message to me about it. And yet, it just stands by while my battery drains, like a volunteer fire department watching the house of a dues-delinquent homeowner burn down.

hope you're all running software update on a private network right now

and that you haven't been on public wifi since last week

why are you reading my posts? update your mac.

how do I shot private network?

you mean just PW protected home account? got that.

pfff I was dead set on keeping my iPad 3 on iOS6 and never update - it seems Apple found a way to force me to

Get it from this link using a browser other than Safari to avoid MITM attacks on the App Store...

hmm I am running an old machine w/OS 10.6.8 - am I just totally screwed?

2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2 GB 667 MB DDR2 SDRAM

can I even run anything over 10.6.8? I assumed not...

I obviously missed some news. What's going on?

sleeve, the issue was only in software made in the last 1.5 years

EZ, there has been a pretty bad SSL security hole in a security library shared between OS X and iOS for the past 1.5 years or so but it's only come to the forefront recently. The iOS/OS X patches fix this, but until you have them installed, any software that uses that library (OS updates, web browser HTTPS sessions, Mail) could be subject to a man-in-the-middle attack

Nice! Thanks for the summary. That's some bullshit.

tbf, every developer I've shown the code that inadvertently created this security issue has kind of dismissed it with a groan and shake of the head. It's just a really dumb case-checking block where there's a fallthrough case where there shouldn't be due to a lack of brackets/bad indentation/copy-paste issues.

thanks mh, I will continue to remain obsolete & happy

I'm just here to tell you to keep on keepin' on

It's so serious that nobody has been affected by it for 1.5yrs. This is being blown way out of proportion by Apple haters. Install the fix but don't overhype the severity of it.

well, we have no idea if anyone's been affected by it, is the issue. and recently people did create a few automated attacks based on that vector, so it's completely possible some people have been stealthily taking advantage of it.