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 have a minor irritation that notifications are now relegated to the bottom of the Lock Screen where they can be easily missed.

i think picatext got sherlocked and they gave up?

Just updated to 16 and added calendar and weather widgets to the lock screen. The two left-aligned widgets under the center-aligned date and time, it bothers me.

The restrictions on the widget positioning seem really unnecessary, open up the grid you babies

otm

^^^^^^ agreed.

Big album art is back on the lockscreen, so I’m happy.

what??? oh shit i gotta upgrade then

Yes but it toggles back to tiny artwork if you nudge the screen
Sigh

Ok that stupid ass photo cutout feature was worth the upgrade alone, wasting too much time on this

6 gigs of ram on this phone and it still can’t remember my place in a note

[omg]https://i.imgur.com/m27x3ca.png[/omg]

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This is like if I posted every time some spam told me my virus protection was expiring

Yeah - we got it with your first complaint.

just fyi if you go settings --> accessibility --> audio/visual there's an on/off for headphone volume safety notifications

https://i.imgur.com/YjvP1YI.jpg

I absolutely understand the unfortunate need for warnings about AirTags and AirPods being used for nefarious purposes, but HOLY SHIT Apple I do not need three days of notifications about my wife's AirPods every time we have them with us on a car ride.

here's something i hate about apple: by winnowing out the headphone jack, they have made it socially acceptable (at least in my big city) for people who can't afford airpods to just use the onboard phone speakers. so everywhere you go, people are blaring tiktoks and youtube videos and voicemails and whatever. the train is more of a nightmare than usual and i blame fucking apple.

As I've said many times: Anyone who tells you "there isn't room for a headphone jack" is lying to you pic.twitter.com/vNJRc2RMe3

— Shank (@ShankMods) September 22, 2022

here's something i hate about apple: by winnowing out the headphone jack, they have made it socially acceptable (at least in my big city) for people who can't afford airpods to just use the onboard phone speakers. so everywhere you go, people are blaring tiktoks and youtube videos and voicemails and whatever. the train is more of a nightmare than usual and i blame fucking apple.

here's something i hate about apple: by winnowing out the headphone jack, they have made it socially acceptable (at least in my big city) for people who can't afford airpods to just use the onboard phone speakers. so everywhere you go, people are blaring tiktoks and youtube videos and voicemails and whatever. the train is more of a nightmare than usual and i blame fucking apple.

was waiting for that argument. The difference is that the playing of your youtube/tiktok/voicemail isn't a transgressive act on the subway these days; it's become generally accepted (if loathed) from grandmothers, children, hipsters, explicit assholes and distracted deliverypeople alike. everybody's doing it!

Dude, just put in your own AirPods with noise canceling so you don’t hear the noise of the poor.

Dead iPhone been charging for almost an hour and still not turning on.

There are a few king-fu reset techniques to coax unresponsive phones into life, you might need a few button presses

Heh.

The thing that worries me is that it does show the read almost dead battery icon that is supposed to mean it is charging, but only when I hit the start button, otherwise it goes to black again.

If I disconnect then I see the cable thingy telling me to plug it in again but then back to black. All of which says to me that it is trying to recharge but not succeeding.

have you assiduously cleaned out the charging slot on your phone? dust can get in there and interfere with the connection

That is often a problem but not recently. Maybe I should just use a Qi charger? Otherwise I might just get the battery replaced.

In addition to everything else I need an authentication app on that device.

"Rollercoaster rides trigger emergency calls from new iPhones"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63157888

^thing that looks like an onion article

Is it just me or does the battery life on the new Pros kind of suck?

Upgraded to Ventura last night Stage Manager is just baffling to me. Not sure how it improves upon anything.

xp yeah agreed. although I haven't measured or anything.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/11/04/reduced-airpods-noise-cancellation/

disgusting

dang, that tracks with my experience

https://i.imgur.com/WALRUhR.png

Apple Music is really playing up for me. It keeps forgetting I have an active subscription and I get the ‘join now’ message. It remembers when I sign out and sign in again - but then it takes ages to update the iCloud music library.

Other minor niggle: my iPhone 12 seems to have a problem that I last had with an earlier iPhone (6 or 7), in that putting it in my pocket without touching any of the controls seems to turn the volume right down. I think I remember sorting that previously, but can’t be bothered enough to fix it right now.

that happens to me sometimes, and i assume i’m hitting some kind of muting shortcut? no idea

Update: pleased to say that the Apple Music problem was resolved via chat support to fix a few settings. Chat support worked much better than I was expecting.

My phone is getting old and has served me well. I did have to get a battery case but at least that lasts a long time even though the phone is now a bit chunky

I can't quite figure out the Share WIfi Password thing.

It should prompt you to share if you and the other person have Bluetooth on and are close to each other

You have to be in each others’ contacts book I think

Why has apple never gotten into the sextoy business

They fixed the play count bug in iTunes so I can finally see how many times I’ve listened to “楽園が待っています”