You can fill your house with deafening emptiness.
― nathom, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
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, 26 March 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
so is the headphone jack coming back, yes or no
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
― nathom, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:23 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sounds familiar!
https://i.imgur.com/ohMI8vG.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
(but he's playing records!)
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
I bet they're just out for show.
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
Is that 'Aja' in front of him?
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
it is not
― lukas, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
― 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."
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
Yerac is only ever reasonable
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
otm
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
trying to figure out which 1/5 you weren't down with
― maffew12, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
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.
― maffew12, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
I dunno, I have sat on many upside down metal bowls.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
you would
― maffew12, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
My boot camp partition’s WiFi download speeds are 33% faster than in Mac OS. Wtf?
― calstars, Monday, 1 April 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
you've got it sat on a metal bowl, don't you?
― maffew12, Monday, 1 April 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
s3 apple watch battery life has been disgusting since last update
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 4 April 2019 23:00 (five years ago) link
disgusting bad? as opposed to like, a disgusting dunk?
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 4 April 2019 23:02 (five years ago) link
used to be at 75% by the end of the day, now it's closer to 45%
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 4 April 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
at one (1) year old, my current phone started lasting 2 hours outside
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Thursday, 4 April 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
― 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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 April 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
is there a better time to post about them
― j., Friday, 5 April 2019 04:37 (five years ago) link
ya got a bum watch
― alomar lines, Friday, 5 April 2019 06:18 (five years ago) link
you’re holding it wrong
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 5 April 2019 06:28 (five years ago) link
Are you trying to sync unchecked songs to your watch
― moose; squirrel (silby), Friday, 5 April 2019 06:57 (five years ago) link
do you try to talk into it regularly?
― alomar lines, Friday, 5 April 2019 07:19 (five years ago) link
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.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 8 April 2019 06:29 (five years ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
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.
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 8 April 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 8 April 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
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)
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 8 April 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
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.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 8 April 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
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’
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 8 April 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
Isn't there an apple music vs Spotify thread that would be a better home for recent posts itt?
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Monday, 8 April 2019 21:59 (five years ago) link
no
― mh, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 12:49 (five years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 21 April 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
it's a fresh start
like a juice cleanse
― j., Sunday, 21 April 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
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".
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
yeah this is just to a Mac Mini that's plugged in all the time.
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
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.
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link
iCloud photos works great for me and as far as I can recall it has since I turned it on
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
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.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
I never knew that swiping up was "force quitting" an app
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 29 April 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
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
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
(turn on iCloud photo sync over cellular there)