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.

xpost You buy a bunch of metal bowls. You can eat out of them, cook over a fire with them, make the fire in them, turn them upside down to sit on, watch water swirl in them...

― Yerac, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 1:26 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What is wrong with me that 4/5ths of this seem like perfectly reasonable advice? Like I have multiple times told my boyfriend, "You should just use that one metal bowl for everything."

Yerac is only ever reasonable

otm

trying to figure out which 1/5 you weren't down with

I am guessing the water swirling. Replace with- fill bowl with water and put in sm/med houseplants when you are away for weeks/a month. The houseplants rewater themselves through the holes in the bottom of the plant pot.

water swirling... that's entertainment sorted though. Not sure with all this activity there will be much time for sitting around. I feel sitting is out.

I dunno, I have sat on many upside down metal bowls.

you would

My boot camp partition’s WiFi download speeds are 33% faster than in Mac OS. Wtf?

you've got it sat on a metal bowl, don't you?

s3 apple watch battery life has been disgusting since last update

disgusting bad? as opposed to like, a disgusting dunk?

used to be at 75% by the end of the day, now it's closer to 45%

at one (1) year old, my current phone started lasting 2 hours outside

s3 apple watch battery life has been disgusting since last update

― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, April 4, 2019 7:00 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe i'm thinking of someone else, but i feel like you post this about every piece of apple hardware you own after every OS update.

is there a better time to post about them

ya got a bum watch

you’re holding it wrong

Are you trying to sync unchecked songs to your watch

do you try to talk into it regularly?

Apple Music is so needlessly complicated - liking/adding to library requires the weird hold and swipe movements instead of being simple buttons, you can't sub to radio shows and when I'm listening to a radio show in my car, when I get back in the next time it's defaulted to shuffling the library and I've lost my place in the radio show.

it's just awful, and yet https://pitchfork.com/news/apple-music-now-has-more-paid-us-subscribers-than-spotify-report/. who are these people? i've never met one afaik.

I have apple music, it integrates well with my iTunes library, have no complaints about selection or whatever, sorta serves as a music backup with iTunes match. the only people I know who use spotify are on ilx.

I've bounced between Apple Music and Tidal out of some Spotify-avoidance for the last year. Apple Music had six free months from my Verizon plan so I'm currently on that.

I think Spotify's tech-wise the best, Tidal's exclusive content and some of the new album recommendations have been good, and Apple Music is kind of a muddle. The radio/special content seems middling and targeted at an audience that's not me, and the searching sucks. I feel like it makes the experience of having my library available (I've used iTunes Match) actually worse because there's not a clean delineation and purging Apple Music-only content from my library when I drop the subscription (as opposed to getting the "please resubscribe to view this") is necessary and also messy.

Probably going to Spotify after this

not sure what milo's talking about -- on a listing screen you can do the push-to-add stuff, but if you're on an album on AM you just click "Add +" and then it switches to the "download" icon if you want it on your current device

I use Apple Music because way back when Spotify had two tiers of paid plan, which made me annoyed and unwilling to subscribe, and then Beats Music came along so I gave that a shot, and then stuck with Apple Music after Beats got acquired (remember that lol)

xp - if you search for something you can do that but if it comes up on a playlist you have to lightly hold and swipe up then hit the heart or plus or whatever.

Every now and again Apple Music really just the spot with its new music playlist, I had a really good run of interesting jazz in last week’s. On the other hand apple’s rather broad definition of folk tends to land me with a lot of sub-Eoin McLove and Celtic moods type drivel which makes me think they think I’m a Missouri housewife trying to get in touch with her ‘Irish roots’

Isn't there an apple music vs Spotify thread that would be a better home for recent posts itt?

no

thinking of becoming one of those people who quits all my apps

“I force-quit your app every time I get out of it and for some reason that’s causing issues”. Surprise! pic.twitter.com/14PiCvynlw

— Guilherme Rambo (@_inside) April 21, 2019

it's a fresh start

like a juice cleanse

Had the weirdest thing happening with my Pandora app and battery drain. Noticed yesterday that my iPhone 7 was draining much faster than usual, went into the Battery settings and found out that Pandora had been running for over 7 hours each day for the past 4 days, in the background.

Thing is, I can't even remember the last time I opened that app. It has probably been more than six months. Checked the app settings and background app refresh was turned off for it. So I have no idea why it suddenly started running.

Googling was inconclusive, but I did see some comments about some music apps starting up automatically when you switch from WiFi to Bluetooth.

Ended up deleting the app since I never use it, but hadn't encountered something like that before. It never showed up on my lock screen or anything, so I never would have noticed that it was mysteriously running if I hadn't caught the battery drain.

Anyone else ever had any luck backing their iPhone selected mobile apps and settings to iCloud via their desktop iTunes? I back up to "This Computer" which works fine, but whenever I'd tried backing up to iCloud via iTunes it acts like it's going to do it, displays a little progress bar, then the progress bar vanishes and it just silently stops trying and iTunes continues to say "Your iPhone has never been backed up to iCloud".

I got a similar thing recently and I think it might have been because my laptop wasn't plugged into the mains and it made some sort of calculation that the juice would run out before the backup was complete.

yeah this is just to a Mac Mini that's plugged in all the time.

jesus christ diving into my iCloud is like running through soup. i have no idea what's connected to what. I've got iCloud contacts, gmail contacts, Exchange contacts, and they're all kept in different places. I've got iCloud drive which is backing up my Whatsapp, but i've got plain ol' iCloud which is syncing my Reminders. i've turned most of the photo shit off, thank God.

iCloud photos works great for me and as far as I can recall it has since I turned it on

My one gripe is it won’t sync over cellular and there’s not option to turn that on. My phone plan gets 80gb of data a month, let me decide how to use it. The 150mb limit on App Store downloads over cellular is an occasional pain too.

I never knew that swiping up was "force quitting" an app

My one gripe is it won’t sync over cellular and there’s not option to turn that on.

https://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/xlarge/public/field/image/2018/05/adjust-cellular-data-icloud-photo-library-screenshot.jpg

(turn on iCloud photo sync over cellular there)

Thanks

Gotta say I love using Apple Pay online bc I have had more than enough of e-commerce checkout flows for this lifetime.

what's the difference between that and like Paypal?

Not huge, especially if it PayPal onetouch; although PayPal has some legacy workflows which have some sucky interface quirks such as having to put in addresses in multiple times. This is definitely more on merchant implementation than than on PayPal itself.

9:22
Absolute Manage has installed 2 softwar packages on your computer.
(shut down) (i will restart later) (restart now)

clicks restart later.

9:25
Absolute Manage has installed 2 softwar packages on your computer.
(shut down) (i will restart later) (restart now)

clicks restart later.

9:28
Absolute Manage has installed 2 softwar packages on your computer.
(shut down) (i will restart later) (restart now)

...

moves popup window to bottom left of second screen and prepares to ignore it for the rest of the day.

moves cursor to primary screen and hits enter.

popup window still has focus so computer restarts.

pah.

Next time kill it from Activity Manager and it won’t be back

really not happy w Apple Mail returning "Top Hits" when I search

I just want the most recent messages containing my search terms, thanks