I HATE APPLE

Eh wireless chargers are unreliable ime.
I prefer wired assurance

Wireless charging just makes the already hideously wasteful and inefficient phone charger that much more wasteful and inefficient.

Fsck charging in general
We need e ink phones that last for a month
Apple get on dis!

Not to be pedantic but eInk displays use more power than LCDs when they are trying to display moving content.

Who said anything about moving content. We need to get back to basics. Text.

phones should just mechanically print your content onto a scroll of paper that you replace daily

then we could rely on our canadian neighbors for the raw materials (paper) instead of china (rare earth minerals)

We'd be living in the alternate timeline of April and the Extraordinary World where Canada was colonized for its lumber

year of the depend adult etc etc

in Apple Music i've clicked on 'iTunes Store' in the left column because i want to search for a song and download it. it shows me a bunch of music, top albums, etc... but there's no search box? i feel like i'm going crazy?? (NB i do not subscribe to Apple Music and don't want to.)

haha never mind i'm an idiot, it's at the top of the left column. i looked for like 15 minutes. :/

there's a slider/blocky radio button at far right once you click in the usual search field at the top of the library selector, it lets you change the search target location to the store.

yes! ALLLLLLL the way on the other side from the search box. it's.... unusual!

it's garbage

Yeah sometimes that shit is right in front of my face and I still can’t see it. I blame it on the relentless redesign mania. I’m still using “itunes” like it was 2004

finally moved my iTunes library (from my 2008 iMac) to Apple Music (on my 2020 iMac)

had to manually copy and paste art for about 750 albums but otherwise nbd

i’m happy to note that doug’s applescripts still all work in apple music

oh shit really? That’s an actual lifesaver for me, I never even thought of checking bc zero chance right

I think you might need to update where it lives in your Library folder but otherwise yeah!

i had to get a couple updated scripts.

finally moved my iTunes library (from my 2008 iMac) to Apple Music (on my 2020 iMac)

Impressive! Have you noticed many changes between 2008 iMac features and functionality and iMac 2020?

Sounds like you may have escaped the great Catalina music artwork whole system slowdown ("processing artwork") of autumn 2019.

i'm finding BeaTunes amazing for cleaning up my library. duplicates, artwork, compilations etc

predictably, my 2020 iMac runs much faster than my 2008 iMac was running at the time of its demise ... otherwise I'm not seeing much difference

nb as a Mac user since the late 80s I've always tended to turn off or ignore a lot of the small gleamy features introduced along the way and basically just want the Finder and a handful of applications to behave as they have since the early versions of OS X

had really been thinking my 2017 macbook pro was a complete dog (bought it new a year ago); fan running out of control non-stop these days. I finally did the SMC/PRAM reset trick and for the first time in probably 30+ years of owning Apple computers, this actually worked.

i do still have a lot of issues with Apple Music throwing errors while trying to add a new album from Apple Music itself. It has something to do with library synching; it's never a problem adding on my iphone, but from the computer, it seems like if I've added something on my phone, then try to add something else on my computer, it fails about 95% of the time. Restarting Apple Music itself fixes this. I tend to add a lot of local files and upload them to the music cloud on top of subscribing to Apple Music, and the problem seems to be completely around doing both of these things.

Things like Spaces and Mission Control never really took off for me. I see people using them effectively but it's not for me. I just need 3 monitors to organize my thoughts.

spaces was better when you could set it up as a 3x3 grid rather than as a single line. I still use it but it's annoying to have to go six screens over to get the project you need.

that's just too many screens

too many projects iirc

i use spaces for full screen terminals only. everything else on one space.

the number of pdfs I have open for each project, though: it has to be this way for me. not a mainstream use case but spaces helps me work better

agreed. the original form of Spaces was definitely easier to use

Euler you should print your PDFs out imo

cuneiform

Every so often I think Spaces might be the answer to all my window chaos and I spend a few minutes trying to set it up before getting confused and distracted. I'll probably get into the swing of it just as Apple drops it.

Possibly Split View will give me more what I need but I can't get to grips with that either.

I would seize up and die without spaces. I went from Gnome on Linux to OSX and definitely liked the grid format better because I was used to it but I’ve gotten used to having 7 spaces in a row and the app switching shortcut helps a lot. I have separate spaces for finder, Firefox, slack/messages, adobe cc, iterm, outlook, and my calendar

I was forced to learn to use Mission Control by, um, recent events.

the gestures to swap around different desktops on the touchpad are good imo

tbh 99% of my windows chaos would be solved if I had a Chrome extension that could take two tabs and turn them into a full-screen split view. Maybe I'll try searching for one again, or pay someone to write it.

oh, this looks promising https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bkpenclhmiealbebdopglffmfdiilejc

yeah I have a “magic trackpad” because I need the gestures to move between spaces

I run my mbp in clamshell but it sometimes wakes up in the wrong resolution and some spaces end up with windows almost entirely off the right side of the screen and it’s annoying.

alba, i used to have a hard time with spaces back when it was first introduced. upgrading os x to something in the current era helped a lot, i think because the trackpad gestures got a lot more useful and intuitive (and available—using the hotkeys to switch was always a pain in the ass for some reason).

this is hoonja material but I live for the SizeUp app and always have all my windows and finder windows etc all nicely tiled.

Thanks J. I use a regular mouse most of the time so trackpad gestures are beyond my reach.

I only use SizeUp for one thing (splitting the screen into two vertical windows) but I consider it indispensable.

I use size up w/ key commands assigned to the command-numeric keypad and can basically fly all my windows around like a goddamn wizard.

Why do you people do so much big hoss nonsense on your home-ass macintoshes

we toil tirelessly at all places and times unlike you clock-punching government teat drinkers

i'm working from home. Actually in-laws home. Came out here w/ my work-supplied Macbook Pro 13" and brought my trusty Dell Ultrasharp 24" to use as a second monitor. Been out here long enough figured I'd check to see if there were any dirt cheap deals to get a third monitor (i was using my ipad for a while but it wasn't that helpful) and I found the same exact Dell just newer, down the street for 75 bucks. Now I'm a real nerd.