I HATE APPLE

Set up as new, nuke it, and restore is what I had to do. The installer still doesn't back out of this gracefully if your previous OS was newer.

Still not getting Shortcuts. I’m trying to set up something like « shuffle from downloaded songs on iPhone » but can’t figure it out

There doesn’t seem to be an exact filter for that. But
“Find Music Where”
“Is not cloud item”

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V

“Play Music”
“Shuffle songs”

Seems to be doing the right thing.

thanks, that seems to work!

anybody having problems with itunes screen redraws after a mojave upgrade? if i delete several highlighted items in a playlist the new display of the playlist doesn't update all at once, only line-by-line as i scroll past now-deleted items.

YES. Had that happen to me last night.

like you delete an item and nothing changes then you click down and it's there twice until you click past it

I'm having that issue too. Already filed a bug report on it.

Anyway, new phone issues sorted out. The Xs is damn impressive - loving the new camera.

xp i could't find anyone complaining about it on the internet (elusive search terms) and then the bug report form was such a pain i just thought i might wait it out until they fix

apple music deleted all my downloaded music (70+ gb) off my phone without telling me. three years on and it's still a hulking piece of shit.

Had a similar experience awhile ago and decided to keep my iTunes lib for my genre of choice separate from my Spotify streaming for new crap and old bs that I don’t need to buy.

AA go to the TMBG poll thread and focus your thoughts about music there

on it

looks like i disconnected icloud when i was trying to fix my light globes, because the two are clearly and obviously related

Found this cool trick for iPhones. You can set up an accessibility shortcut so that you turn the feature on and off. So for example - if you like to use the phone in greyscale most of the time (that’s me except when I’m working with photos) or you like to invert the colors - you can just toggle back and forth between that feature and the “regular” display by triple tapping the home button.

my dad is adamant that when he finished installing the new macbook os update apple prompted him to install mackeeper. i told him it almost certainly did not bc apple does not bundle third party pseudo-scammy programs with its os. am i wrong? is this something they're doing now?

no way

Yeah, sounds like either he mistook some scammy pop-up ad for an Apple dialog box or his system is infected with malware

just after i got my new mba i found that i was seemingly beset by warnings and popups and offers including ones that seemed to make mackeeper worth considering, and mackeeper itself

i think that died off once i got everything set up properly, maybe it takes the system protection thingy a little while to get up to speed with the to-the-moment state of scammy internet sites

very happy arq user here, but it's extremely fiddly to set up (and potentially expensive) if you're not already familiar with cloud services.

https://www.arqbackup.com/arqcloudbackup/ looks like an extremely nice simple alternative built on the same backup protocol, but with the backend bit taken care of. $6/month all in.

posting on I HATE APPLE because it is 10-20x faster for me to recover a file via arq (from google nearline storage in my case, which is cheap because it's slow), than it is to recover it from time machine on a disk connected to my machine by a USB cable.

siri on the watch is totally fucked. if it fires at all, which is like a third of the time, it sits there saying “hold on…” for several minutes

generally speaking Siri is just not good. Apple are way behind Amazon and Google on this digital assistant thing (I hate all of them frankly but my son uses a google home for stuff and it's impressive, where if you ask siri the same things she doesn't know what the fuck you're talking about)

Just picked up an Xr and it’s pretty nice. Sweet spot between the too large max and Xs, which seemed too narrow somehow. The xr brings a bit of width. Also the red color is very cool looking!

all of the currently available iPhones are too large

need an XE

I got an XS Max when they came out. Picked up my kid's SE the other day, and felt wistful for a phone that doesn't pull my pants down when I put in my pocket.

got the xs max and tbf i wish it was bigger

all of the currently available iPhones are too large

2024: “we listened! new iphone se-r, starting at us$1900”

SE 4 lyfe

when even goldman sachs is saying "slow down, you are fucking everything up by being too grabby" it seems like a real sign https://t.co/qzaPAkbgCo

— Casey Johnston (@caseyjohnston) November 20, 2018

Even Fraser Speirs has a Pixel now

That is wild.

If the rumors are true, the "Pixel Lite" will be amazing. Plastic back, 64GB, headphone jack ...

…14 significant problems, 3 of which are hardware…

There’s really no fucking way to be actually sure the alarm on an iPhone will make sound when it goes off in the morning is there? I had two incidents over the course of about a year which I convinced myself were my error somehow but now there have been two in the last week where I definitely had all the settings correct. Fucking thing just went off silently for two hours before natural light woke me. Luckily I’m only late for thanksgiving and not my job.

You've got the right 'change with buttons' option in Setttings>Sounds, yes? I've been caught out before with that making the alarm quiet when I've turned the volume down for other reasons.

https://i.imgur.com/DoOXqNY.png

https://static.scientificamerican.com/blogs/assets/roots-of-unity/File/3823683431_6fd4418996_z.jpg

This fscking device has 3 gigs of RAM and can’t remember my place in a 20k rich text document.

F notes

oooh boy this is a bad one

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/28/facetime-bug-hear-audio/

yep shut off FT last night on mine

https://1eu.funnyjunk.com/pictures/Defiant+flaky+future+donkey_7a1e5f_6935584.jpg

if only there was some way to tether your earpods to your phone, perhaps via some kind of wire

there isn't, with new apple phones, is the problem

lightning adapter though

that is far more bulky and inconvenient than a square of medical tape though

also it's one of the worst ux decisions in the history of man

yes but it’s possible, and apple even gave you a free one (until last year when their greed eclipsed the sun)

are you on BG’s side or Mr Tape Ear though

Mr Tape Ear Did Nothing Wrong

it's a good look!