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.

I suspect the mail thing may be due to having multiple accounts and having to wait for the app to check them all

Love the live lyrics feature in the new iTunes, you can click on any line in a song and the audio goes directly there.

Took this with the dark mode, 1/2 hourish after sunset.

https://i.imgur.com/aCUPABb.gif

lol

lol

lmao

I suspect the mail thing may be due to having multiple accounts and having to wait for the app to check them all

I had multiple accounts before and there was never a problem. Even individual mails just will sometimes not load unless I quite the app and restart. It's really very poor!

how are we feeling about this new iOS

Although for balance I like all the new options on safari where you csn request desktop versions of everything & customise what sites can ask for.

Even individual mails just will sometimes not load unless I quite the app and restart. It's really very poor!

This may be partly the fault of your terrible, shitty and really quite unbelievably outdated corporate server. The Boxer app is good at handling those.

(One thing I've found can help is hitting reply on the email. that forces it to wake up and display them)

If it's the server why was it fine before? (Also not corporate - these are personal emails hosted by Bytemark) (I have a feeling I know which shitty corporate servers you're thinking of though :)

ah if it's personal it's not the issue I'm thinking of :)

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/15/catalina-system-issues/

university IT sent a mail saying don't upgrade, first time I've seen that. I'm just annoyed that my system prefs say there's one update waiting, that I can't seem to just say no, not gonna do it.

There’s a new update this morning, doesn’t look like it actually addresses any of the shit discussed here & elsewhere

yeah it's like a gig too, and it took a good while to install, must have had to do some extensive shit

I had multiple accounts before and there was never a problem. Even individual mails just will sometimes not load unless I quite the app and restart. It's really very poor!

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Same here - i have 4 accounts in a ocnsolidated view but sometimes individual emails don't appear until I select the single account view. Really annoying professionally.
Also, I've had issues where emails i forward would appear as empty to those receiving them.

euler, have a look at the man page for softwareupdate

share menu so full of junk!

my wife’s iPhone 8 can no longer use mobile data. multiple restarts later still no dice. :/

Is she on Three? They’re down (to some extent).

"If your service is affected, click here for updates" ON YOUR PHONE THAT HAS NO INTERNET CONNECTION

I’m having to restart my Apple TV every night since the last update because the streaming speed slows to a crawl and even navigating bogs down.

New iOS just bloated up everything with junk.

Wish I hadn’t bought so many music apps on iOS over the last year or it would be easier to look at one of the clean Android options.

ahhh it was Three!

thanks j! however when I run softwareupdate --list the Catalina update isn't listed, so I can't ignore it that way :(

huh, but it is prompting you via the system preferences app? the tag for the update should just be "macOS Catalina", maybe if you tell it to ignore it will even if it's not listed.

yes, under the apple on the left of the menu, next to system preferences it says "1 update". I just used softwareupdate to ignore macOSCatalina, and it didn't fail, but the "1 update" indicator hasn't changed. Under System Preferences, Software Update, Catalina is listed as an "upgrade" rather than an update, so maybe they've added some distinction to increase the pressure to update to Catalina?

perhaps. it seems that even if you --ignore, software update will re-check and re-notify. so if you have the app open it might be accepting the ignore command and then checking again immediately? lol. try it with the app closed.

you can do an additional step to remove the notification from the system preferences dock icon, but you might have to do it again if you are in the habit of opening software update.

https://dev.to/krnsk0/turn-off-macos-badge-update-notifications-4bip

hmm I don't have the systems pref app open. just to be sure, I did the ignore again, and it's there under the apple menu.

I mean I don't care that much, it doesn't bug me to have a number on a list, I mean my mail icon currently says 58 comme d'hab so

i have grown accustomed to the 1 for the bloated xcode update i am too lazy to clear space for from the app store, but if i get a second 1 on my dock it is too much grief

happily systems pref is not on my dock & there are no other numbers on my dock save the menacing email count

I will never understand folks who leave email unopened to pile up into the hundreds - surely it’s the difference between giving it a cursory glance and literally never opening it before trashing it in a fit of guilt. I have like 4000 messages in my inbox but no red dot.

my emails marked as unread are not indeed unread, but instead serve as a to-do list: these are mails asking me to do something. Since I have to reply to say that I've done the task, once I've done it, keeping them in my mailbox as unread works well.

i have a similar system but have ongoing anxiety that i've accidentally clicked on an email to read it, not dealt with it, but forgotten to reflag it as unread

occasionally i've half-heartedly attempted to use 'flag' email as a way of keeping on top of to-dos but it appears to have the effect of making those emails even more forgettable

loving the way that the apple podcast app now crashes every single time i start listening to a new podcast, thx tim cook

ah - I have done that myself at various stages but I just hate that narcissist attention seeking dot so much that I open everything and accept the occasional failure to follow thru

same here - unread for me means still to be adressed

> I will never understand folks who leave email unopened to pile up into the hundreds

you haven't been subscribed to a github mailing list that sends a message every single time someone in your group changes anything (1279 unread). or to a jenkins mailing list that emails a message every single time one of the 300 builds passes, or fails (1416 unread). (and 203 unread from aws, not even sure what those are. "alarm notifications").

for those I'd build a rule which dumps them in a separate mailbox and tags them "read" so I can just dip in when I need, or deletes those matching "alarm" in subject.
My mail software currently has a complete archive going back to 1995 - I am pretty ruthless about organising it all. I suppose it must be about half a million messages now.

how many of those are from your mom

my stance is if I delete an email that was important someone will eventually send another email

go with god

it's all robots nowadays anyway, they're always sending another emails

iphone11 froze up when trying to update. had to contact apple support, did not know about this way of forcing it to shut down: tap the volume up, then the volume down, then hold the power button.
Hoping the update fixed issue where I now have to manually reconnect bluetooth in my car every time, but I'm not holding my breath on that.

how many of those are from your mom
just the ones with ALL CAPS SUBJECT LINES

moms, still great at sorting

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2mdz2c8sh18b8sc/Mail1.JPG?raw=1

I know what’s important

*hives erupt on face*

damn, I think that beats another ilxor I will not name who also has tens of thousands