I HATE APPLE

^otm this sucks

Love the scare quotes. "Microsoft Excel" is it? We'll see about that.

Verify deez nuts

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Adobe have added an AI-driven super-resolution feature to Camera Raw (Photoshop only atm), where you can up-scale a RAW/DNG image and it's supposedly as good as shooting at that resolution in the first place. Benefits over standard interpolation seem marginal, but anyway... Trying this on a 51MP image (->204MP) on my 2014 MBP took best part of 13min. It's super-GPU intensive and the fans were screaming. Tried the same operation on the same image on my daughter's 2020 M1 MBA. 15 seconds.

And then she spent all day playing Roblox.

Keep your fscking phone in your pocket and just shoot in medium format if you’re so concerned about photo quality ffs

Are you talking to me?

Yes you, “Michael Jones,” and billions of others too

Easel and full oil painting rig or gtfo

Ok.

My point, if I had one, was just to anecdotally confirm how ridiculously quick the M1 is with Apple Silicon software vs older gen machines (or maybe just how sluggish my old MBP now is). Not really about super-res at all (which might be handy for older pics, I guess).

Yeah. Bug sir seems to be built around the m1s. My intel beast takes forever to restart

oof. the funny thing here is that Mike is probably the first person who'd warn you about upscaling given his job and all, and those weddings he shoots, and his resident photographer gig.

What the fsck is calstars on about? Where do phones come into this?

if you're planning to upgrade to Big Sur, upgrade your device drivers first. could only boot in safe mode until I upgraded the software for my audio interface. it was exciting, what with needing to get work done.

Someone explain how the 12 pro has better battery life than the 12 if they have the same battery

https://i.imgur.com/6k9OQvv.png

Just reminded me that there were five different iPhone models in 2020 (four 12 + the SE). Which is a lot!

New SE is treating me fairy well so far; thanks for the advice ilx!

i just love how MacOS nags me daily to "install updates," by which it means upgrades (to Bug Sur), which i absolutely do not want. and i love how there's no simple way to stop the notifications.

Trying a fresh install of BS
Fresh installed Catalina yesterday but it wouldn’t recognize safari keychain ffs

i just love how MacOS nags me daily to "install updates," by which it means upgrades (to Bug Sur), which i absolutely do not want. and i love how there's no simple way to stop the notifications.

this, to me, is classic I HATE APPLE

one of these days, they'll catch me off guard, i'll mistakenly click the wrong rectangle and the upgrade will ruin my ability to work! i can't wait!

please...please apple....remind me tomorrow.....gasp

Big sir is fine in my experience fwiw

old-school nerds impressed upon me ages ago to wait 6 months after release before i upgrade an OS and the advice stuck

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NO SHIT?

Um, why can’t I get it to stop autojoining WiFi networks even when I forget them?

I think you have to go in when connected and tell it to not autojoin that network before you forget it.

Joined Wi-Fi Network “Fubar”
This network is found at a new location

I have Auto-Join Hotspot at Never
And
Ask to Join Networks at Ask

Then I forget and it rejoins anyway at new location

Maybe Reset Network Settings but that seems extreme

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Piece of shit OS, go fucking die

YEAH I MEANT TO SAY “DUCKING” THERE GO F Y

*D Y

I'm trying to figure out whether or not I need to do a full or partial erase of my iPhone to deal with what looks like some malware that surfaced overnight

So far it's just put a ton of stuff on the phone's calendar for the next few days - with shit like "your phone may be infected!" Nothing else.

For now I have it on Airplane Mode and turned off while I figure out WTF to do, as it seems like in-person help isn't available until Monday at the soonest

(And I changed several passwords and disconnected a number of things, just in case.)

Update - Apple Support chat bro sorted all this out with me.

Calendar spam is a pain in the ass - sounds like that what it was?

So it seems. I'm hoping that's ALL it was.

I gave the Apple support guy a glowing survey response, he was incredibly knowledgeable and patient.

Find Deez Nutz

Curious about leather phone cases - are the cows killed just for the leather or is their skin used as a by product when theyr’e killed for meat?

https://i.imgur.com/83aOK8L.jpg
GFY shit

TURN IT UP FUCK IT UP

Waiting for Libraries

i'm about to make my mac mini m1 (which RULES) 40% better one with 1 crazy trick

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

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YSWZNNW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A35D5ON3677H9N&psc=1

it's the bottom part, for $80, and it adds the things it should had in the first place, in the front so you don't have to be a jackass scraping up behind your desk to plug-in a goddamn headphone

prime reason for purchase is to fix the stupid SD omission. i mean, i can get a dongle, but fuck yoooooooou apple, you used to be the thing that was good for people doing stuff

in fairness, how often are people still using flash cards and usb drives these days?