I HATE APPLE

WHAT DID HE EVER DO TO YOU??????????

All too true.

Apple replaced my new iBook's motherboard while I was in Japan. That's hundreds of dollars worth, at no charge to me. Of course, it shouldn't have failed within six months in the first place...

That's why they charge you double upfront!

Because I don't believe in a company making you pay for a warantee that should be offered for free upfront. I was under the impression that a one-year warantee meant that if something goes wrong in the first year, they actually fix the thing, not put you on the phone with several douchebags who are trying to sell you additional warantees.

Shit, when the first warantee doesn't seem to work, why would I want to buy another one?

But it does sound like you have a problem with your serial number, Jay.

tho when i was waiting there, i did see todd oldham.

My tech experience with Apple has been sensational. A friend called me today to tell me that his mini iPod was replaced in less than five business days, and he also got the new generation mini in place of his old one that had died. No charge.

I've dealt with Dell and Gateway and their CSRs are no better than Apple's. HPs can blow me, they've sucked.

the desktop I have at work running XP has been up and alive for 2 years with barely any reboots. It does everything I want it to do, does it quickly, and I can navigate painlessly without ever touching the mouse if I feel like it.

I was raised on Apple and my first job was DTP on a Mac, followed by audio editing on a Mac, more DTP, and so on. OS 7+ had more than its share of problems and stupid quirks but the hardware was rock solid and at least its behavior was predictable.

Since getting my latest-edition powerbook I've put it through little more than I ever tried to do with my old OS

...OS

My old Quadra used to have a TV Tuner in it and be able to do image captures from live cable broadcasts, then I could import them into my cheap, incredibly easy to use paint program and do whatever with them. I believe it cost approximately half of what my laptop did! My laptop lets me chat and surf the internet. And rip CDs.

Well today it decided it wasn't going to wake up again, ever, as I'm being greeted with a totally white screen.

What's funny is that like doing searches on my own to try to figure out wtf this computer is doing right now (I mean not even the sad face x-eye Mac or the question mark Mac! NOTHING AT ALL! WHITE SCREEN! I know how to handle the other things!), everyone who is reporting similar issues to me is like bitching about how they have all this important blah blah blah they were doing with the Mac prior hand. Is it that no one who has this failure who is only using their Mac for chat, porn, and MP3s can be bothered to get in on the discussions, or is it because they don't die if that's all you use it for? Because yeah, it seems like my sleep problem increases tenfold whenever I've been using my iBook more for writing or photo work. If all I've done on the damn thing is use iChat for two weeks, no problems whatsoever with starting it up, back when it, uh, started up.

What does this imply??? Is there like some inherent instability in the majority of the "native" programs that come bundled with OSX or is this just really fucked up coincidence?

Also it seems that this particular issue with the iBook G3 was so bad they threw the whole "your warranty is expired, give us $500" shenanigans out the window, and searching on this same issue with "Powerbook" has not given me the same results--ARE IBOOKS PIECES OF SHIT? wtf?

*with the exception of my ancient PowerMac that I had when I was 14-15-16, which only died because my sister is a dick.

I am pretty close to deciding to become the female Punisher, except murdering computer firms, instead of bad guys.

And then kind of ran away????

That was pretty funny.

OmniDiskSweeper is a good free tool for identifying which folders and files are filling up your Mac.

i restated to bed in the previous deletion-sweep and when it started up it also decided unasked to take 45 mins reinstalling catalina from scratch so i'm now at 20.8GB available

hullo spinny disc i haven't met you for 45 mins wheres it at

Awesome

CleanMyMac is a v good product imo

Definitely sus that your System Preferences were represented by the Chrome icon!!

Malwarebytes is free and totally worth running as well just in case a network of bots has decided to commandeer your computer for its own dark ends

lol i get quite a lot of that kind of flirty icon cosplay, is it bad? my ilx bookmark used to read "murder" (currently it reads "second")

things do seem a bit calmer and less bloated since i just switched the backup schedule to once a day (=overnight)

I've always stayed away from CleanMyMac because of lots of talk about malware being included and it being nigh on impossible to ever uninstall again? Don't know if there's truth to that but it scared me off. Are those reports off?

I don't use a lot of apps on my mac, as it's old and slows things down. One I do use, and might be of use for you Mark, is Memory Cleaer. It's free and fast. I set it to clean my memory every hour, and I have def noticed it improved performance.

*Clearer, to be cleaer

ppl who have encouraged me to use: cleanmymac: j darni3lle, t hand
ppl who have discouraged me: the annoying hackney road guy* (who didn't mention malware) and rumours LBI has heard

*tracer i need a new guy

stick w the first ppl obv (but give memory cleaner a try!)

this first backblaze backup, the bulk of which is off a pretty old external 2TB disk, is taking a looooong time, several days now. only 13k files left but 544GB, maybe it prioritizes the smaller files? & this is over a wired super fast connection. but future backups will be much faster. & it's nice to not have to worry about old external drives dying anymore.

Enjoying the real keyboard talk---how are Magic Keyboards?

Identical to the MacBook keyboard before it all went wrong. Nicely engineered piece of gear.

I use one everyday and it makes up for my irritations with the MBP keyboard. I’ve no particular issue with the action but is is ridiculously easy to double strike a key on the internal keyboard. Never happens with he the magic keyboard.

MBP is still miles better than the worst keyboard of all time, the original surface type cover which has no space between the keys so it’s almost impossible to type without looking at it.

WHY AM I SYNCING MUSIC TO MY PHONE FROM THE FINDER WHYYYYYYYYY

The watchOS 6.1.3 update includes important bug fixes, addressing an issue that could prevent the irregular heart rhythm notification feature from working properly for ‌Apple Watch‌ owners in Iceland.

ok, I know this was probably related to government healthcare regulations and in what countries they're allowed to report specific metrics to users but I'm choosing to misread this as "we had a software bug where we can't analyze the heart rate of Icelandic people"

'big time irregularity' (1993, one little indian/elektra)

nice one

https://www.cultofmac.com/685669/larry-tesler-the-apple-employee-who-invented-cut-copy-paste-dies-at-74/

:(

Did they try hitting Ctrl Z on him?

Star Wars director confirms Apple won't let movie bad guys use iPhones

https://www.techspot.com/news/84163-star-wars-director-confirms-apple-wont-movie-bad.html

Ironically, iPhones are often the preferred phone of choice for real-world criminals, usually because of Apple’s refusal to unlock them for the FBI and authorities.

anyone who loves civil liberties and end-to-end encryption, I’m in for

uhhh I mean other than the bad people. good in theory, can enable bad things, but only as a bad side effect

oh please they'd kill to have Vader shown with an iPhone

I hate that they removed the automatic magnifier function when you are editing text.

Me too, but I am slowly coming around to the hovering-insertion-point. Not in Messages though, as soon as you try to do that the message scoots to the bottom of the screen and you can't place the cursor in it without bringing up the keyboard, rinse-repeat-AARGH.

jed_ otm, it’s bullshit

iOS 13 has entirely fucked up autocorrect as well. I mistyped the word "liked" and it had been corrected to "lujj oh ee" wtf? A couple of times I've sent a message before checking and got some very confused - what on earth does that mean? type replies whereas before people would be fairly able to decipher an accidental autocorrect now it just replaces the mistyped word with bullshit. I'd do anything to go back to 12.

it even autocorrects words you’re finished with! like it’ll autocorrect two at a time

Consider using SwiftKey

yeah i should. i used Gboard for awhile until i ejected Google from my life.

SwiftKey is good

I've set up my laptop with my clicky keyboard and shitty monitor at my desk at home so I can work from home effectively and man oh man is typing on a real goddamn keyboard at a desk infinitely preferable to smartphones or what

I don’t know, I nearly posted something about the ‘Australian Health Monster’ which is technically correct.

just cracked my 6s screen yet again. what do i do next, buy another used 6s? or is it time to move on? i can't tell you how much the 3.55mm headphone jack thing makes me fear a newer model. i've already burned through 3 or 4 different SEs and 6s over the past few years, each w/ its own screen replacement or two. the batteries always suck too. most of all though i miss the size of the 5/SE, that was the best. all the others just slip out of my small hand too easily

I feared the missing headphone jack so much and used the shitty apple phones fore a few months before I bought a pair of $50 wireless earbuds and it's been honestly life changing - I didn't realize how much having a cord sucked until it was gone.

Granted 99% of my phone listening is podcasts when walking the dog or whatever so not 'serious' listening.

Getting a headphone “dongle” is pretty painless. I was also apprehensive but it’s really no big deal tbh

I had decent results with Lightning-to-3.5mm adapters but then I got a pair of Sennheiser bluetooth headphones and now use those all the time

ok you have reassured me

You have to get one of those pop socket things otherwise anything bigger than a 6s is unusable imo

joygoat what earbuds did you get

I got these based on a wirecutter review as they were the cheap favorite: https://www.amazon.com/Skullcandy-Sesh-True-Wireless-Earbud/dp/B07VPX4W35/

Also pondered these based on consumer reports but the ones above were $10 cheaper that day: https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Signature-Bluetooth-Earbuds-Charging/dp/B07HGL3J31/

What’s the best/most trustworthy place to buy a used iPhone? I know that q has been answered before but I think it’s in the fold of this thread I can’t fully open. I’m in the US and my ancient beloved 6 is dying at the worst possible time.

swappa was what they said

Thanks j., looks good

still getting eat-everything issues with backblaze :(

ALSO: my macbook just (like an hour ago) started switching off when i remove the charger lead. plugged in again it starts up fine and says the battery is at 100%. unplugged it goes straight off again.

battery information has it's 100% charged but "charging: no" -- does this just mean it isn't charging because it's fully charged or is something else wrong?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

I'd check this out

ah cool thank you