I HATE APPLE

https://twitter.com/cdzombak/status/795800189239984129

just got my new MBP from/for work. immediately had to go to best buy to drop another $100 on adapters and still have to go to the Apple Store to spend another $50 on a thunderbolt to usbc adapter that ONLY apple is selling, so I can use my apple thunderbolt display....

this is for really real unreal. $150 more to just get it working with a pretty normal setup. probably gonna have to spend more too.

A term comes to mind: "sucka bunny"

you mean usb-c (on computer) to displayport (the standard over that port for display) right? there are a lot of cables for that

I had to buy this.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207266

There will be more options as USB-C gains traction but https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13234

sorry that was was large DP, they also have mini DP

Don't think that will work with the display I have

"Apple Thunderbolt Displays, like the video input on Thunderbolt iMacs, drop compatibility with all previous standards, including VGA, DVI, and DisplayPort.[5] They are not compatible with computers that do not have a Thunderbolt port, including pre-2011 Macs and the vast majority of PCs."

Thunderbolt is not DisplayPort. You can plug a mini DP into a Thunderbolt port, but TB also has high speed data, USB etc.

ah crap yeah, if you want to do thunderbolt passthrough it probably wouldn't work

lmao what the fuck, the monitors ONLY work on macs?

made after 2011?

i just bought a new phone today. an iPhone SE. its pretty great. its a massive upgrade from my last iPhone 5s, which couldn't download apps anymore because it required a OS version too advanced for my machine. there's that designed obsolescence for you.

the picture quality is very nice, and it is much lighter than my old phone. design wise it looks sick, like some real life TNG shit. the camera is way way better and includes slow-mo, which i am super thrilled to have! i have already made a slow-mo video of my cat leaping off the ground. this is really cool.

most importantly i can now download apps and use things other than Instagram. and the internet works. my last phone was like using a dial up modem. 3 out of 5 times it would just fail to load any webpage. tbf i had dropped it on the ground a lot, to the point where the screen was permanently shattered. it still worked, and it looked so cyberpunk! RIP old phone

???
iOS 10 runs fine on my 5s

Yeah I went from 5S to 5SE and speed was the only difference I noticed, plus better camera I guess.

Yeah, design-wise isn't it pretty much identical to the 5s? Maybe meant 4S.

And the 5s has slo-mo too.

yeah i may have had a 4s not a 5s. it won't upgrade past Version 6.1.6

that'd be a 3GS then

My poor li'l 1st-gen iPad is stuck on 5.1.1 forever. It's still a good e-book reader and Words With Friends machine.

Yeah, I use mine for Kindle, Instapaper and Plex. It's amazing how quick the OS operates given how dog-slow a device it is. They really let that go post-iOS 7.

Starting to think sacking Forstall was a proper mistake

I'll take slowness rather than have to live the skeuomorphic life again.

yeah i may have had a 4s not a 5s. it won't upgrade past Version 6.1.6

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, January 27, 2017 6:53 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that'd be a 3GS then

― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, January 27, 2017 7:24 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

SE is a good phone. not noticeably different from my 5s but im happy that i was able to get a new iphone in the same body as the 5

SE is a good phone. not noticeably different from my 5s but im happy that i was able to get a new iphone in the same body as the 5

sorry for duplicate post

two days in, so far this touchbar is completely worthless and actually quite annoying. I have found zero use for it. I miss every single one of those keys that was up there on my older mbp

i don't use it very much except for typing emojis and also the volume and brightness sliders

having the volume and brightness sliders is actually kind of dope i think

i don't use it very much except for typing emojis and also the volume and brightness sliders

having the volume and brightness sliders is actually kind of dope i think

sorry

i use the brightness thing a ton but its not just permanently up there (unless im doing it wrong)

imo alot of the stuff the touch bar is currently utilized for is poorly thought out. for example, using it for tabs when browsing in safari. if you're browsing it's a lot faster to move your pointer to a tab or use the keyboard shortcut than to move your hand all the way to the touchbar.

you can customize the touchbar i think tho i don't remember how or if i did it

yah thats a big gripe xp. just pointless

It'll be good when the whole keyboard is a screen w haptic feedback imo

http://docs.bettertouchtool.net/docs/touch_bar.html

BetterTouchTool now supports the touchbar. I haven't used it for that, but it is an essential utility for the touchpad.

I like physical keys

what the https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/apple-lg-5k-display-issues/

why did they stop making their own displays?

they've stopped making anything that isn't relate dto the iphone

I know there's a separate thread for this, but while I've been (unusually) patient with iTunes all this time, it's been giving me grief lately. Anyone have a preferred and reliable alternative? This would be for a crazy big music library, please keep in mind.

what are your needs? For playing stuff at home, there's the nerdiest possible option

I have been poking around with some alternatives

all I've learned so far is that plex is acting weird about streaming flac files inside my house

Needs would be fairly simple -- it's mostly mp3s, some AAC/WAV/AIFF -- and just needs to play on my computer setup.

the nerdiest possible option

https://cdn.volumio.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/pi-2-design-503hta-i2s-dac-hybrid-tube-amp-for-the-raspberry-pi-VOLUMIO.jpg

Swinsian

Hmm, that looks like just what I would need.

there's a way to set it up so that it watches your itunes folder, so anything added to itunes is added to swinsian. You can't sync the playlists though, which is a bummer. One day I'll replace iTunes with it completely.

Hey, their website screenshots show Go-Betweens, Orange Juice, Beefheart etc.