Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

yikes

tl;dr looks like the microphone and induction pad are in the worst possible places for that

in messages conversations used to be in bubbles/rounded but something changed and they're all ugly squares now. anyone know how to change it back?

Preferences>bubble edge display>rounded

weirdly not an option for me but force quitting / reopening fixed it. maybe i need to update to 10.13.6?

deeply regret installing mojave. constant freezing.

i'm sorry to hear that but thank you for reaffirming my decision not to install until i finish a very important project

btw, for ppl with touch bar MacBooks: mine froze the other day, and I had no idea what to do because there's no power button... there actually is, it's on the right end of the touch bar. it's there. maybe this is old news. i thought that was cool.

My new favourite Shortcut is Upload to Imgur. Handy for getting pictures ready to post on ILX, which I always found a massive faff on iOS before

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c0c8520be8734d0faec0096b83c4703b

I like using the TinyPic keyboard for ilx image uploads. Uploads it and created the bbcode for you, all from zing.

Ooh

Thanks alba

apple music will work on amazon echos in a few weeks

poor ol siri

god i am still digging just having adequate memory and being able to leave programs and documents sitting open for days at a time

$ uptime
5:02 up 8 days, 3:48, 2 users, load averages: 1.32 1.79 2.14

~dark mode is good now~

mojave is definitely the worst; really need to roll back to pre-update but scared to lose my computer for a few days

$ uptime
14:33 up 12 days, 8:15, 2 users, load averages: 0.76 0.83 1.00

woooo

Everyone I know has the stupid watch now so I guess I should get one too. But the only use I can see for it would be to see what song is playing

i literally know no one with an apple watch

I have one. I wear it sometimes. It’s best for letting you see who’s texting you without taking your phone out of your pocket.

It’s also great when you have your baby as the wallpaper and said baby always asks to look at it and starts thinking that everybody’s watch has a photo of her in it.

My idea for the watch is to get the lte version, take off the band, put it in my pocket, and use it as a mini phone / music streaming thingy

what even is dark mode

It's for when you want to sound like you're doing something dodgy but actually aren't.

you can do dodgy things in it if you want tho

the thing about the apple devaluation and the link in that with people not buying so many iPhones now is that apple always (usually) made beautiful objects but now that a phone is all or only screen there are not many ways in which an iPhone is a cherishable object over something else that all or only screen, is there?

esp. in a case.

they could have had they come out of the gates with a notch-less screen

Yeah man, apple made some killer bezels back in the day

my SE as a thing to hold and have is better, more lovely imo, than an equivalent android would be but an XR is no different than something else that is only a screen. If it's only-screen then it's only a screen.

i’m still using an 8+ and i legit forget that it even has bezels.

the race to eliminate the notch is more interesting than the race to fill the phone face with screen imo. when the notch problem is solved once and for all, this era of notchy phones is going to look totally ridiculous.

Never want to upgrade from my 6s really. Although I did just order a mini headphone amp so that would obviate the need for the headphone jack around the house.

what is a "notch"

A kind of haircut, or a pattern of baldness, according to Samsung

extremely funny that their products aren’t as inelastic as they thought

lower your goddamn prices u xunts

and it’s incredible that they’re blaming everything except their own greed

Never want to upgrade from my 6s really. Although I did just order a mini headphone amp so that would obviate the need for the headphone jack around the house.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 4 January 2019 03:04 (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Which hp amp did you get?

tired: $3500 laptop with keyboard... issues
wired: $279 laptop that is spill proofhttps://t.co/kF3oHrImG0

— ZG (@zachgrosser) February 25, 2019

that looks... pretty good actually

does it have a caps lock button

i had planned to buy a new macbook when i go to taiwan, but not with these fucking keyboards

It's extra annoying because Apple's current wireless keyboards are pretty great - can't you just put that keyboard in it, or merge the goddamn teams, or something...

[tim cook walks onto the l train car with a boom box] pic.twitter.com/JJ6A3frSUb

— Caitlin Kelly (@caitlin__kelly) March 11, 2019

they fixed the finder

lol

what was wrong with the finder

excited for Apple TV TV

https://infinitediaries.net/the-state-of-mac-hardware-early-2019/

glad I haven't needed a new computer in like 6 years

I had a scare with my 2011 MBP yesterday. New system install seems to have fixed it. Thank goodness because the current Mac lineup sucks. I think I’d go Razer for my next machine if I had to buy one now.

I want to put OpenBSD on like a $300 micro-desktop

I haven't had serious keyboard problems with the new MBP. If I did my assessment might be different. That said ...

All of these "I'm switching away from the Mac because of annoyances X, Y and Z" are hilarious to me. What other OS could you subject to that level of scrutiny without exceeding your HTTP POST limit? "Screen resolution could be a bit higher" but the plain ugliness of every other OS doesn't bother you?