I HATE APPLE

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

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

Settings.
Sounds & Haptics.
Headphone Safety.
Headphone Notifications.
set switch to “off”.

You could have googled it two years ago instead of uselessly spamming the thread.

This is at least the third time someone has told you how to stop it, so I am just going to FP from now on.

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

my bluetooth earbuds broke. went to four mobile repair shops who told me to just get new ones. approached three uncles whose office was a wooden box on the sidewalk. they fixed them with a cigarette lighter and a soldering iron whose power cable came out of a vacant lot. pic.twitter.com/s4CsmT5tVY

— A-100 gecs (@PinstripeBungle) April 11, 2023

love this

Wow

Excellent. I've done some soldering in buds. It wasn't pretty.

(ever) resting the iron on the power cord though...eeee

uncle magic

"The iOS 17 update that Apple plans to show off in June will include several new health-related features, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. There will be a feature for tracking mood,"

oh this is right up my alley

Heh the Headphone Safety tip above no longer works; now its Accessibility > audio/visual > headphone notification.

You know that annoying AirPods glitch where one ear connects but the other doesn’t? Since I switched to regular bluetooth headphones that has happened to me exactly zero times

I need an iron shiek rant against apple. can ai do that for me?

yeah my airpods have been doing this. Just the right ear constantly not connecting or even giving the battery dying sound even though it's charged. And generally running out faster. I assume(d) that particular one has a battery not holding charge or something and was about to buy a new pair. Maybe I'll get something else.

My Beats Powerbeats Pro (or wtf they are called) do this to me all the time. Also one of them legit doesn't charge sometimes unless it is super perfectly seated on the contact, so it's extra confusing as to whether it's actually out of juice or just doing that dumb thing. Every time I take them out I have to spend a bunch of time putting them on / taking them off until it's sorted.

just bought some airpod pros because I'm a sucker like that. Always forget how creepy noise cancellation is.

I recommend the nothing stick
$99 and transparent cool af

Bought a watch
Can’t figure out the use case yet but looks cool

was at a concert a few days ago (John Cale!) and received a Facetime call from a friend of my daughter's. confused but thinking my daughter might be using the friend's phone, I opened the call. after a short lag a video image came up of a small room, with an animated figure at the camera (seemingly at a desk), appearing to speak. in the background was a bunk bed with what appeared to be a stuffed/furry walrus, moving, so with someone inside apparently. couldn't hear over the PA (between bands), so held the phone up to my ear and the call ended.

my daughter just got home from a trip and I told her about this and she said her friend had said that I Facetimed her and didn't seem to know what was going on.

my friend sitting next to me saw this, so not a flashback. is this some security bug in ios? weird and creepy.

Horror movie

wtf

https://i.imgur.com/9aWPTVC.jpg

loll

I hate-bought the new smaller Pro. It’s an iPhone.

why hate? looks about as good as any other year's model

my iPhone X is on its last legs so it's time to upgrade but cant make my mind up btw 15 and 15 Pro. The latter doesnt have anything I particularly care for but the better chip makes me think it'll last longer (I use my phones until they're not supported)

i've never regretted spending more extra for the slightly better model + more memory but I justify it by usually keeping a phone for 5+ years

Same, went 15 pro max cos I’ve had the XS Max for 5 years now. Pretty lame it’s still 256 I don’t understand why these things arent 1Tb easily by now.

the square edge on the front of the work macbook pro is bad enough but the little groove they add to it to help you open the lid makes two quite sharp points, right near where my tender wrists sit when i'm typing.

I always get the 256, but I iCloud everything.

the pro max comes in up to 1 TB

The camera image processing system is such garbage. Photos look like crap

My current annoyance is searching for a contact using the system-wide search and having the contact open in some weird view that you can't reach from the app switcher.

“Siri, call goomah”
“Calling goomah”

I did it. I just bought Swinsian, I think for the second time. I just can't handle Apple Music. I always defended it. So many people hated it because it wasn't like iTunes, interface-wise. All you had to do was tweak a few settings and it looked and acting the same as iTunes always did.

I still can't get sync to work. I tried to avoid it for years but spend so much time at other computers now I just wanted to get my playlists sync'd up, but again it timed-out after hours and hours of trying.

But the real complaint is just how slow it is. I did everything I could. It's just like working in molasses. I'm not even talking about accessing cloud Apple Music stuff. That actually works fast! I just can't play stuff from my library quickly, can't search easily. Can't scroll through.

So I downloaded Swinsian again. Pointed it to my iTunes library. It took a few minutes to scan. I didn't set it up to copy the files over, just see the library and load the playlists. When it was done? No problem. Totally speedy jumping around the library.

I just used Swinsian to check out a bunch of stuff I downloaded....so I could then go into Music and add things to a playlist that would sync with Rekordbox.

I may see about organizing the DJ playlists in swinsian and finding a way to sync that into rekordbox.

Fight this generation

My 2015 MacBook Pro shut down the other day with no warning, and never restarted. I've got local guys looking at it right now, and they suspect it could be something as relatively simple as a battery issue, but in the meantime I'm humoring the possibility I may need to finally replace it. I saw that a lot of the M1 chip MacBook Airs have been discounted down to relatively low prices, but I have read differing opinions about whether to go 8 GB RAM or 16 GB (the 8 gb models are the discounted ones). Usually the more RAMthe better, but I've seen claims that the newer chips handle RAM allocation a lot better than the previous ones.

Also, since I would be replacing an older computer, I assume M1, M2, M3, whatever, would all be equally noticeably faster than my previous machine, so that probably matters less, right?

It will be like night and day. That said I'd buy the fastest and best you can afford, given that you will be using it for the next 8 years!

I have the same machine and it’s been knocking on heavens door in many ways so yeah, time to get a new one.

When I finally take the plunge into M-chip world, I'm thinking it'll still have to be 16/512+ (as per my current mid-2014 MBP) rather than any 8/256 base models.
As tempting as the base models are - as Josh points out, they're the only ones you see discounted anywhere (M2 2022 too, now), anything else is a direct Apple order and they never discount anything - this does need to last me at least as long as the current one did. Apple might've figured out how to optimise 8GB, but I suspect even my modest AV editing exploits will be page-swapping like mad with only that on tap. Feels like a bit of future-proofing to go bigger. A refurb to save some cash if I can. Likely don't need the 10-core GPU option.

And, yes, the consensus seems to be M1 was such a leap from the Intel stuff that the incremental improvements in M2/M3 are almost a let-down.