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.

its an insanely expensive machine that fails to address a market larger than a couple of thousand people and will thus not receive upgrades on a useful schedule. granted!

but i'm not sure you learn anything by just saying yes to every option that costs money and seeing what the cost is.

we're back to the good old days of buying memory from Apple being a sucker's bet. they have a video showing you exactly how to install memory! and the case and retaining clips are very well-designed to the point where changing out hardware is easier than in most computer cases I've had

The graphics card is the one upgrade I don't understand - base is the same as an iMac, the next upgrade is $2400. Nothing in between, nothing at all?

I know NVidia got cranky and decided they're going to stop with the macOS drivers for now, but I'd bet that you can slap an AMD card off the shelf into this thing and it'd work just fine. It depends on what firmware the vendor throws on the card, but a bunch of them worked well in the old Mac Pros

I also want to congratulate Apple on having a configuration selector that's insanely more functional than Dell's. I was configuring out a server yesterday, and it does this arcane crap where it says "If you want RAID, you need to select paired drives of the same size" but does absolutely nothing to change the options on hard drives to default to that. They have more configurable options, but each is set up to grief you in that way.

Dell doesn't give a shit because 99% of the people ordering multiple servers are going through an obnoxious old-school sales rep who drops by to do some gladhanding, anyway. They will buy you beers and regale you with throwback tales

siri is so farcically useless and aggressively fucking user-hostile that I’ve just turned it off everywhere

seriously 95% of the time it either completely misunderstands me, misses the first half of what I say to it, tells me to “hang on” indefinitely, craps out for no reason or fails to activate at all

I look forward to a version of the XDR monitor being affordable to me sometime around 2035.

iOS mail is still a bit fucked. slow to update, slow to retrieve, slow to display contents.

anybody having problems with itunes screen redraws after a mojave upgrade? if i delete several highlighted items in a playlist the new display of the playlist doesn't update all at once, only line-by-line as i scroll past now-deleted items.

― j., Friday, October 12, 2018 1:25 PM (one year ago)

can't believe this is still fucked in the music app. straight up item selection DOES NOT SELECT WHAT THE SCREEN SAYS IT DOES like 1/10 or 2/10 times

Tracer I don’t know if this would work for you but the outlook iOS app is bizarrely excellent.

wow you're right. do you use "focused inbox"? I'm skeptical. otherwise it's brilliant. hilariously it works for my own imap account but not for my work’s.... exchange account.

which is weird because i have an exchange account already set up in my iOS account settings. i should be able to just point it at that. but even without that this is good. i’m switched!

Yeah I would totally use Outlook but my work IT doesn’t support it (even though we use Exchange too).

i don't use focused inbox but i don't actually get a lot of email that doesn't get filtered by gmail rules. (outlook ios also works very well for gmail's fake imap)

i first found out it was good from this thread which calls the modern microsoft the ikea to apple's west elm which is otm

Microsoft Outlook for iOS added this RSVP widget that pops up above emails in Inbox view and archives them when done. pic.twitter.com/QuiZ8KdGgS

— Paul Ford (@ftrain) October 9, 2017

It does send everything via China iirc

i’m using my own mailserver so i don’t think so?

That was what my work told me when I asked why they didn’t allow it - apparently their servers poll your server and ingest the mail to do stuff like search etc.

ahhhh. for exchange i accounts i take it. at a certain corporation. i see!

Photos seems incapable of keeping my place in my library (when going through photos from a year ago) when I leave the app for a minute or so. It resets to my most recent shots, so I have go back and find where I was

Probably due to various security widgets, my work iPhone and my personal iPhone handle PDF links very differently, regardless of what browser I’m using.
This makes it a pain in the ass when gathering receipts for business trip reimbursements. The ultimate first world problem

I love Outlook for iOS, but it won't interact with the calendar that's in my phone. It wants to create events in some nonexistent Outlook calendar. Booooo. So close! (Also its search is terrible.) I really want to use this thing but those are dealbreakers. It's a shame iOS Mail has become such a dog with multiple accounts. I never used to get aggravated about mail on my phone!

iOS Outlook can't access your iCloud calendar?

Maybe I’m doing something wrong?

I don’t use my iCloud account for email (not even sure what my iCloud email address is) so I haven’t added it to Outlook. Maybe I have to?

OK I figured out my iCloud email address. Created an app-specific password by logging into iCloud and generating it, then going back into my phone and entering that. Quit Outlook, restarted and it works. Can't figure out how to turn off my iCloud email but it's not a big deal as I don't receive anything on that account. Search still sucks though! If it actually worked this would pretty much be perfect.

i find it odd that Outlook can’t just hook into the settings that are already set up at system level. it’s like it’s just not plumbed in. Search is the same. isn’t this the sort of thing that Microsoft got keelhauled for in the late 90s with Internet Explorer? this feels like a much more egregious abuse of OS defaults tbrr.

yeah I had to help a friend of my parents' yesterday with trying to install Chrome on her new hp laptop, and I learned that the laptop was present to windows 10 "s mode" which meant the only usable browser was something called edge (apparently a new take on IE) and even this elderly woman was like "this is bullshit". turning that s mode off wasn't that hard but it certainly wasn't transparent and it took my dumb help at 7km away to get it done.

I'm open to thinking microsoft can make good software but dang.

well in my case it’s Apple who seem to have locked MSFT out of the settings which have already been perfectly entered into the system. msft made/bought a great little email program which is hamstrung by the OS.

yeah I understand the comparison though I dunno what's really going on between the os and the app there, like, maybe the app is trying to do something in a weird way and the developers were obstinate in not doing it in the standard os way? I dunno, I'm fine with the regular mail apps on both phone and desktop so I've never looked at alternatives

Well I was too until the most recent iOS update. Maybe it just affects multiple accounts, I dunno.

I have multiple accounts but no problems. I don’t know if my uni account is an exchange account, though

pretty sure Outlook’s calendar is sandboxed to the app and to use iOS’s own built in calendar app to access that info, you’ll need to sync it separately in Passwords & Accounts. Same as Google’s calendar app.

upgraded to catalina, seemed fine, and I like the slimmed down Music app, however, it doesn't seem to like me adding my own files to my itunes library and uploading them to icloud library. no easy way to force it to do this either. anyone else have this issue? I had to remove a bunch of things and re-add them and then it started uploading them, but it didn't do everything. completely annoying.

" It wants to create events in some nonexistent Outlook calendar. " There is a calendar in Outlook, can you not find it? that's weird.

I use outlook on my phone as well for work stuff and it's more or less ok; actually preferable to adding my exchange account and using the iOS mail app which I hate (I use gmail app for my personal email).

the outlook app is very much meant to be paired with an exchange server and doing so with gmail or w/e means messing with email and calendar separately. I think the extant apps that do email plus calendar on the side do treat it as a side thing and just rely on the OS calendaring but Microsoft approached it differently because.. use exchange, right?

the outlook app is very much meant to be paired with an exchange server and doing so with gmail or w/e means messing with email and calendar separately. I think the extant apps that do email plus calendar on the side do treat it as a side thing and just rely on the OS calendaring but Microsoft approached it differently because.. use exchange, right?

No there’s no default calendar in Outlook if you’re just using an IMAP email account.

ah ha got it.

how do I get MP3s onto iphone when I don't have a wire to connect my iphone to my computer

could add to dropbox from mac and then download on phone maybe

Airdrop?

that's a whole other issue (no iOS devices found via airdrop on new mac for some reason)...

email them to yourself : )

if you have a mac you can sync itunes wirelessly (don’t know about apple music since my mac doesn’t support catalina lol)

I still use an archaic version of iTunes since my MBP doesnt support Catalina either. Wireless sync seems a bit random. New stuff added to teh library automatically appears but my Smart Playlists don't update automatically on the phone (seems i need to delete the playlist before adding it again to get it updated). Urgh

settled for syncing to icloud drive and then accessing on phone via files.app

The new Music app is a complete fucking piece of shit

what are we now, ios 13? how many years of cloud services? my iphone and ipad STILL won’t sync messages. from the same species that put a truck on mars.

The iCloud syncing was faked.