I HATE APPLE

a while back i bought an lg external optical drive to use and tried to attach it to my macbook air via the official apple usb-a to usb-c adapter and...it did not work at all, the drive just clicked and blinked its light and did nothing else. unsurprisingly, lg and apple had nothing useful to say about this anywhere, even a stupid faq would have been nice. BUT, i recently got a $30 usb-c hub w/ various ports and thought to try that with the optical drive, and now it works fine! so i hate apple and lg and that usb-c adapter is trash, but if you're having this problem maybe try some sort of less-direct connection, idk

Having the usual paralysis about buying the new phone or not

https://i.imgur.com/vOfrHs4.png
Fuck off

my android phone on does that as well, but doesn't take into account that the podcast I've been listening to for an hour was recorded really quietly and is inaudible below 90% volume

mine doesn’t take into account the fact that my headphones are shitty and barely drive any volume to my ears so i have to crank them.

smart playlists don't update ON IPHONE?

i hate apple

I had the battery in my xs replaced by apple two months ago and the max capacity is already down to 93 pct. That’s some bullshit right there

I like most of the iOS 16 stuff, but now every time you delete a text message it asks you if you want to report it as junk. So all the 2fa texts I get and delete everyday I have that extra tap to say no I don’t want to report this as junk.

I installed iOS 16 for no good reason and I can report zero perceivable difference apart from a bolder non-Helvetica font for the lock screen time. At least it's not sucking down the battery.

I would have upgraded to the new iPhone if Apple had changed it to a USB-C port. Thanks, Steve Jobs.

I installed iOS 16 for no good reason and I can report zero perceivable difference apart from a bolder non-Helvetica font for the lock screen time. At least it's not sucking down the battery.

iOS 16's big deal for me is being able to copy/paste text out of a video. Every conference video, PowerPoint deck, etc. is suddenly and amazingly useful now.

I do use that a lot from photos and unselectable text on webpages, since whenever it came in (iOS 15?). But I wish you could do it from a screenshot as soon as you take one, rather than having to save it to Photos first then get it from there.

Yes - also I wish you could do it on a Mac? Maybe you can but I haven’t figured out how

Yes - also I wish you could do it on a Mac? Maybe you can but I haven’t figured out how

Coming in macOS Ventura next month.

I bought a Mac app called Picatext to do it. Maybe I bought it when I was in the US though, as it now tells me it's not available to buy in my region.

Good news about Ventura, Elvis - thank you. Though it'll probably be ages before it'll be installed on my work Mac.

I have a minor irritation that notifications are now relegated to the bottom of the Lock Screen where they can be easily missed.

i think picatext got sherlocked and they gave up?

Just updated to 16 and added calendar and weather widgets to the lock screen. The two left-aligned widgets under the center-aligned date and time, it bothers me.

The restrictions on the widget positioning seem really unnecessary, open up the grid you babies

otm

^^^^^^ agreed.

Big album art is back on the lockscreen, so I’m happy.

what??? oh shit i gotta upgrade then

Yes but it toggles back to tiny artwork if you nudge the screen
Sigh

Ok that stupid ass photo cutout feature was worth the upgrade alone, wasting too much time on this

6 gigs of ram on this phone and it still can’t remember my place in a note

[omg]https://i.imgur.com/m27x3ca.png[/omg]

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This is like if I posted every time some spam told me my virus protection was expiring

Yeah - we got it with your first complaint.

just fyi if you go settings --> accessibility --> audio/visual there's an on/off for headphone volume safety notifications

https://i.imgur.com/YjvP1YI.jpg

I absolutely understand the unfortunate need for warnings about AirTags and AirPods being used for nefarious purposes, but HOLY SHIT Apple I do not need three days of notifications about my wife's AirPods every time we have them with us on a car ride.

here's something i hate about apple: by winnowing out the headphone jack, they have made it socially acceptable (at least in my big city) for people who can't afford airpods to just use the onboard phone speakers. so everywhere you go, people are blaring tiktoks and youtube videos and voicemails and whatever. the train is more of a nightmare than usual and i blame fucking apple.

As I've said many times: Anyone who tells you "there isn't room for a headphone jack" is lying to you pic.twitter.com/vNJRc2RMe3

— Shank (@ShankMods) September 22, 2022

here's something i hate about apple: by winnowing out the headphone jack, they have made it socially acceptable (at least in my big city) for people who can't afford airpods to just use the onboard phone speakers. so everywhere you go, people are blaring tiktoks and youtube videos and voicemails and whatever. the train is more of a nightmare than usual and i blame fucking apple.

here's something i hate about apple: by winnowing out the headphone jack, they have made it socially acceptable (at least in my big city) for people who can't afford airpods to just use the onboard phone speakers. so everywhere you go, people are blaring tiktoks and youtube videos and voicemails and whatever. the train is more of a nightmare than usual and i blame fucking apple.

was waiting for that argument. The difference is that the playing of your youtube/tiktok/voicemail isn't a transgressive act on the subway these days; it's become generally accepted (if loathed) from grandmothers, children, hipsters, explicit assholes and distracted deliverypeople alike. everybody's doing it!

Dude, just put in your own AirPods with noise canceling so you don’t hear the noise of the poor.

Dead iPhone been charging for almost an hour and still not turning on.

There are a few king-fu reset techniques to coax unresponsive phones into life, you might need a few button presses

Heh.

The thing that worries me is that it does show the read almost dead battery icon that is supposed to mean it is charging, but only when I hit the start button, otherwise it goes to black again.

If I disconnect then I see the cable thingy telling me to plug it in again but then back to black. All of which says to me that it is trying to recharge but not succeeding.

have you assiduously cleaned out the charging slot on your phone? dust can get in there and interfere with the connection

That is often a problem but not recently. Maybe I should just use a Qi charger? Otherwise I might just get the battery replaced.

In addition to everything else I need an authentication app on that device.

"Rollercoaster rides trigger emergency calls from new iPhones"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63157888

^thing that looks like an onion article