I HATE APPLE

the battery life on my M1 MBP sucks

That's unusual, have it looked at

Fire up Activity Monitor and look at your CPU usage. I had an issue where a couple of Safari tabs were steadily using 20% of my CPU and it all for some b.s. thing on the page that my blocker missed

Stats.app is useful, free, and can be helpful w.r.t. too: https://github.com/exelban/stats

my wife’s M1 was telling her it didn’t have enough memory to keep multiple apps open. activity monitor immediately showed that Dropbox was using some insane amount of RAM. reinstalled Dropbox restarted the laptop and no issues since

i charged her my usual fee

i.e. nothing

forget dropbox and go with maestral

Apple has also made clear that if creators on Patreon continue to use unsupported billing models or disable transactions in the iOS app, we will be at risk of having the entire app removed from their App Store.

That's fucking insane. I always thought app developers had the option to just not do transactions in the iOS app.

iPhone supercycle still a year away, dey gotta plug dem holes

Isn't disabling transactions in the iOS app exactly what Amazon does with Kindle?

it all seemed foreign to me because I've subscribed to stuff on Patreon, view posts and add private podcast feed links to whatever podcast app I use, and have no inclination to install the Patreon app

it sounds like Patreon is doing a lot of payment traffic through the App Store, many people do use the app and subscribe that way, and Apple's mostly let it slide

don't get me wrong, Apple's payment/subscription cut is fully the result of their store having a monopoly on the platform and a bad situation. just feels like Patreon's wording, creators on Patreon continue to use unsupported billing models or disable transactions is putting their site-/app-wide policy on the people publishing to Patreon

haven't dug into it, but it sounds like this is on Patreon for allowing creators to say "don't accept payments for my specific feed on iOS at a reduced cut" instead of Patreon just turning off in-app purchases entirely or forcing their users to allow App Store subscriptions across the board

tsai has a good collection of commentary on this as per

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/08/12/apple-going-after-patreon/

probably a sign of me being an old curmudgeon but jamie zawinksi's response aligned with my immediate reaction. this is new for Patreon, but the way they're pitching their entire app value proposition is that it's an intermediary that allows individual subscriptions, which are then available in their app. so they're a store of stores, of sorts, which is the exact thing Apple's trying to hammer out when it comes to EU app providers

their pricing and model suck, but I don't see Patreon's response as anything other than panicking at seeing how, say, Netflix's numbers went down when they decided you couldn't subscribe through Apple payments. afaict they could just remove all payment abilities from the app re: digital products/services and subscriptions and make a blanket statement that you have to pay on the web

I think they have a good case for pushing back on Apple, but that's not what they're doing

Thinking of getting the regular phone this year instead of the pwo

Somehow my phone decided it didn’t like my notes password (which I’ve had on via Face ID for a year) and now I can’t access my passwords note ffs

what doesn't it like about the password?

It doesn’t work
Thankfully my accepted my fingerprint and I was able to recover the note

*my mac

sounds like you had the password wrong

i think by default it’s the computer password

that;s the thing, I'm certain the password was correct. oh well whatever...

New phones boring

M4 oled ipad tho..... there's a war going on inside of me whether med school justifies buying something so extravagantly superfluous

I was all set to get a 16 Pro this cycle, but *shrug*

I’m definitely getting one, probably the black one

I have updated every other cycle and I am not annoyed enough by the AI features to stop now

It sounds totally ridiculous even just writing this, but if there was a 2TB version I'd be ordering on day one.

Typically, I update every three cycles but I have no compelling reason to swap out my 1TB 13 Pro right now.

What's your storage need? You might be able to use an external USB-C SSD?

I still have never gotten above a 256 gb iPhone.

What's your storage need? You might be able to use an external USB-C SSD?

I upgraded from 11 to 15 last time because the camera had improved enough to be worth it (and the battery on the old one was starting to need more frequent charging), hoping to make it to 19 or 20 this time.

Don't even try to talk me out of that - streaming services are not an acceptable substitute.

Mix of lossless and 320 AACs. 81,627 songs in my music library rn.

what playback app on the iphone do you use? apple music?

i feel like for the first time the Pro series seems squarely targeted at, err, "pros" - I have no need for the A/V stuff so it looks like i get the regular model without any FOMO

Base model > pro this year

explain?

this annoying guy covers it from about 11:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVPSDCSPv9Y

he's speaking from the perspective of someone who's upgrading every year...but it does sound the base 16 isn't as hobbled vs. the pro compared to most year. still not sure if it's worth the extra $100 or so to go up to Pro for the better screen refresh rate and camera, so i'm half-convinced

I’m still getting a Pro, primarily because it’s the only option to get a black phone

agreed. I don't care about the screen or the macro lens and that's basically the difference this time iiuc. it's not my year, but if it was, I'd get the base.

xp the base 16 is available in black?

base: blue, green, pink, white, black

pro: brown, silver, white, black

I always use covers so colours and frame designs are pretty irrelevant. Still debating whether to wait til next years edition so as to have the AI stuff done and ready

lol ignore me, I apparently can’t read or recognize colors

who's getting desert titanium i.e. brown?

I thought about it for a hot second and then went “wait, NO”

i'm waiting for next year's iphone slim

Just moved from an 11 Pro to a 14 Pro Max. Ugh at the level of processing evident in photos now, esp selfies. Portrait mode looks significantly more fakeyfakey than before. First pic I took was on Contour Light mode for some reason and that was just comically bad but even on Natural Light it's pretty horrid. Are there third-party apps that can use the depth sensor to do fake shallow-D.O.F. better? I've been using Lightroom app a bit to take photos but that doesn't do a portrait mode.

if you're using Lightroom I think there's a new 'blur' effect that fakes DOF

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220178/halide-camera-app-process-zero-ai may be of interest, but my understanding is that the photos look like shit and some processing is necessary

(won't help with DOF)