I HATE APPLE

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

Is it just me or does the battery life on the new Pros kind of suck?

Upgraded to Ventura last night Stage Manager is just baffling to me. Not sure how it improves upon anything.

xp yeah agreed. although I haven't measured or anything.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/11/04/reduced-airpods-noise-cancellation/

disgusting

dang, that tracks with my experience

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

Apple Music is really playing up for me. It keeps forgetting I have an active subscription and I get the ‘join now’ message. It remembers when I sign out and sign in again - but then it takes ages to update the iCloud music library.

Other minor niggle: my iPhone 12 seems to have a problem that I last had with an earlier iPhone (6 or 7), in that putting it in my pocket without touching any of the controls seems to turn the volume right down. I think I remember sorting that previously, but can’t be bothered enough to fix it right now.

that happens to me sometimes, and i assume i’m hitting some kind of muting shortcut? no idea

Update: pleased to say that the Apple Music problem was resolved via chat support to fix a few settings. Chat support worked much better than I was expecting.

My phone is getting old and has served me well. I did have to get a battery case but at least that lasts a long time even though the phone is now a bit chunky

I can't quite figure out the Share WIfi Password thing.

It should prompt you to share if you and the other person have Bluetooth on and are close to each other

You have to be in each others’ contacts book I think

Why has apple never gotten into the sextoy business

They fixed the play count bug in iTunes so I can finally see how many times I’ve listened to “楽園が待っています”

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

Hi go fuck yourself

settings > accessibility > audio/visual > headphone notifications

switch it off

think this has been mentioned, cheers

I'm officially not imagining it: my M1 Mac is slower during the day than at night. As in, noticeable lag while typing during the day.

maybe you type faster during the day and your computer just can't handle your flyin fingers

2020: These M1 Macs are so astonishing fast you can open 30 applications at once and it still doesn't slow down!

2023: Why do I have to wait for it to register me typing a character in TextEdit?

was considering buying an m2 pro to replace my 2016 touchbar pro. must admit these posts are making me rethink that!

FWIW, it's been pure honeymoon up until this started happening a few days ago. (No, I can't think of something I've installed in the last few days that would have caused this. Time for an elimination diet I guess.)

Usually when my 2019 iMac is running really slow, I discover there's a Time Machine backup in progress. I realized yesterday I had these running every hour (on a machine I probably use 15 minutes a day), smdh. Maybe now with Time Machine running once a day I'll be able to open a new Finder window in less than a minute.

Cleaning out the garage recently, I had occasion to start up a 2004 iMac. It was depressing how much faster it booted and how much snappier the Finder was than my newer machine.

My bet would be Time Machine, Dropbox or Backblaze.

Update: it wasn't a day/night thing, it was my Bluetooth keyboard from Apple which I only use during the day. "sudo pkill bluetoothd" and then restarting fixed it. I hate Apple.

xp yeah that is at the root of my trepidation about buying ANY new mac right now. i just KNOW that they're going to keep making OSX shittier and shittier, with more and more focus on (at best) useless fluff and (at worst) tons of weird network shit constantly running in the background

on a related note, i have a very large collection of roleplaying-related PDFs that live in the network drive of a time capsule, and i recently figured out that books keeps crapping the bed because the time capsule isn't up to the security standards of icloud (when i try to pull PDFs off my network drive and into books, icloud says no). the reason they're on the network drive is that they're being shared via SLSK, which is running on a 2012 macbook pro w/ mojave, so that might be a factor too. very cool of apple to constantly be deciding that their old products are shitty and their new products are too good to be interoperable with their old products. i mean if they cared so much about security i'd suggest they make a spam filter for icloud email server that isn't completely useless

summary: i hate apple

tbf if your commitment to old hardware / APIs is top priority, you end up with Windows

I think you mean “live in a time capsule on the network drive”

i’m getting pretty used to this surfacebook they gave me for work. if they put a retina screen in a surfacebook i might be willing to switch!

windows 11 is clunky for sure, but it’s never crashed and it never does random inexplicable aggravating shit

I hate Apple but even looking at screenshots of Windows makes me feel like I'm in a cube farm.

ikr, every time i get home and get on my mac it’s like “ahhhh, i feel like i’m in a tastefully appointed post-industrial loft, doing creative work in front of an exposed brick wall” … just kidding, not really

sounds like you need to escape the cubicle within, maaaaan

Wrong. I just need an Apple headset. Look at a world Designed in California.

Update: it wasn't a day/night thing, it was my Bluetooth keyboard from Apple which I only use during the day. "sudo pkill bluetoothd" and then restarting fixed it. I hate Apple.

― what have I done to deserve you (lukas), Friday, February 10, 2023 2:18 PM (seven hours ago)

i have this exact bug too, my magic keyboard from apple gets super laggy with my m1 mac mini after a few days and the only fix is a restart

i hate apple

if I tell ipad to airplay a vid from one tab to TV, whytf does it to SWITCH to automatically airplaying something else if a video plays in a new tab

My main gripe is having to sync twice with my phone…once to transfer my “dislike” playlist to my Mac. Then I delete my disliked tracks on my Mac. Then I sync agin to remove them from my phone. This is probably because I refuse to join Apple Music (it deleted stuff the last time I tried ). Anyway I’d love the ability to delete a track on my phone and have that decision translate to my Mac.

Speaking of, oh my GOD I cannot believe smart playlists no longer update on iPhone. Fucking iPods had no problem with this.

it sucks, but you're complaining about abandonware.

https://i.imgur.com/x79Qqbt.jpg

Go fuck yourself