I HATE APPLE

Between this guy and the ifixit guides I've saved thousands over the years.

A lot easier to attempt repairs with confidence when you understand why you're having the issues in the first place.

this is the kind of bullshit that worries me about the mac becoming abandonware https://williambharding.com/blog/technology/linux-touchpad-like-a-macbook-goal-worth-pursuing/

so my laptop just died again and another resurrection is looking unlikely...

is this the right time to upgrade? i see the macbook pro just got an upgrade and it looks maybe impressive at least inside and maybe better than the last keyboard iteration?

take it to that guy on the LES whose youtube i posted!

but yeah, now seems to be the least bad time in a while to upgrade

This sucks though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8J125s4cg

God I dread the day that my top of the line 2014 mbp work computer dies.

still seems a bad time to upgrade.... hopefully refresh some more of the line soon......

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that is abysmal

yeah that seems like a major boo boo if it's not a problem with that guy's specific mac.

but afaict the new 13" (which doesn't have that CPU) is solid, and 15" "laptop computers" all suck anyway.

apple computing line is still a shit show. how is gruber dealing with all this? still licking their rim no doubt

update the non-touchbar macbooks, pls. nobody wants that thing

also c'mon anybody who's using their macs for video rendering should be using a desktop mac pro...... o i c

gruber mainly posts #resistance stuff now

congratulations to the tories

is this just with the i9? i think i'd be getting the i7 anyway

15" "laptop computers" all suck anyway

ever since retina screens came out, solid agreement on this

I really want the 13" one and have a perverse desire for the external gpu enclosure

i loved my 2012 15" retina tho

2010 MacBook Pro with the anti glare screen. Discrete graphics switching controller never worked because even using chrome made the thing switch to the nvidia gpu and that was it for the battery.

Mid 2014 15”, 512 / 16
Scored it for $1799 new in 2015
Dope machine
Still lust for thinkpads tho

ever since retina screens came out, solid agreement on this

I really want the 13" one and have a perverse desire for the external gpu enclosure

Mrs. Telecom's new 2018 13" arrived yesterday and I'm jealous already.

anybody know of any good Windows 10 apps to transfer files from my iPhone?

i just want to cut and paste all of my photos/videos. i have used some shareware for this in the past but it seems like Apple keeps updating iTunes specifically to thwart the ability to copy files to your computer.

If you just plug your iPhone into the computer via USB cable, tap "Allow" when it asks if you want to trust the computer, does the phone not show up in Windows Explorer as browseable?

I don't have iTunes installed on my work computer but that works for me after it searches for and installs the USB driver

yes i click allow but it doesnt show in Explorer. it opens iTunes and that's it. fwiw i have an older phone w an earlier version of the iOS i can copy files from w Explorer fine.

I think you can d/l iCloud on your win10 machine and then pull down your photos from the cloud assuming you have that enabled on your phone

hmmm. ive been trying to avoid connecting to icloud. not sure i want to send all my data to an external thing.

for some reason i can now read it as usual, guess it fixed itself.

I shouldn't give a shit, but it's depressing to know how rich the obnoxious knee-jerk apple fanboys have gotten by gorging themselves on apple stock for the last 20 years

I should have bought apple stock instead of a powerbook when macos x came out, is the short version of the story

Without the iPhone it could have gone a very different way. Also it’s not too late to buy in

if you bet on Apple in 1998 that was a long bet to make

I tipped my dad to buy AAPL at the late date of April 2013 when it was in a bit of a trough, it’s up 260% from then.

I've got a friend who is an uber-fanboy--like, he literally buys every new apple device, and buys them the day they come out. There's no way he hasn't been buying like thousands of dollars of stock every year. to be so zealous and have so much faith in something and then have it actually work out and pay off must be nice!

i bought in 2006 and sold in ... 2007. galaxy brain.

feel like I need to take silby on as general financial consultant based on posts this week

My actual financial advice is “get a job, don’t buy a car, don’t buy a house, don’t travel, don’t drink, don’t have kids, plow money into Vanguard funds, spend what’s left on books”, picking stocks is for lunatics like my dad

lol caek

I bought that powerbook in probably 2001/2002, let me go take a peek at the stock price

oh sweet I'd have $200K

My actual financial advice is “get a job, don’t buy a car, don’t buy a house, don’t travel, don’t drink, don’t have kids, plow money into Vanguard funds, spend what’s left on books”, picking stocks is for lunatics like my dad

roffle

My actual financial advice is “get a job, don’t buy a car, don’t buy a house, don’t travel, don’t drink, don’t have kids, plow money into Vanguard funds, spend what’s left on books”, picking stocks is for lunatics like my dad

realizing this is generally true (along with rumblings of the 2008 crisis, which i knew enough to know i didn't understand) is why i sold my 20 apple shares.

If every apple product you ever bought included one share of apple stock, do you think they would end up paying for themselves?

don’t drink,

otm and go fuck yourself, you're fired

I still get 1.5%

I mean this sort of retrospective speculation is totally worthless not only because of counterfactuals but like if you or anyone spent $2k on a laptop 15 years ago it wasn’t like an investment in Apple was what you were choosing between. I could’ve saved/invested even more money instead of buying a piano but you can’t play money. You may be able to get wasted on money though.

it's a hell of a drug iirc

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry-steve-jobs-daughter

God what a fucking asshole.

that excerpt is really well-written, i'll have to pick up her memoir

Jobs was such a monumental dickhead.

Out of all of them, The Man And The Machine documentary is the one that's the most accurate. Fearsome cult-leader asshole.