I HATE APPLE

insane. tap “today” then tap the picture of your face.

New iOS update appears to fix Mail. lots feels snappier on my SE tbh - keyboards, safari

Holding off on the latest update because my se seems to have battery drain issues already without it.

Is Apple Podcasts even more trash than usual for anyone else? Crashing constantly, if I'm lucky I get about 8 minutes in before it crashes (pauses and blinks away from the homescreen, though it's still open in the background). Restarting the app, restarting the phone, deleting and redownloading the app - nothing seems to work and it's happening with every podcast I try to play.

use Castro innit

otm

Oh I know, I'm way past time to switch to a better podcast player. Just won't be able to do that until I get home tonight, just wish Apple's wasn't completely unusable at the moment.

Castro better than Overcast? I've been using that one for a long time

Castro is made by some Irish fellows rather than Marco Arment

I'm asking about software, not politics!

(everything's political)

Lol phish

ok, Castro has the best instructions -> import from competing apps intro screen I’ve seen. nice!

The new Macbook Pros have problems with popping when you scrub through audio or video and apparently the SSDs make a high-pitched whine or something.

I'm on Overcast but still miss the ease of clicking or searching for new podcasts podcasts. Might go back to Apple Podcasts just for this but maybe i'll first give Castro a chance

I’ve used Pocket Casts for years. The only problem it has is not being able to search inside of episode descriptions if you’re trying to find where someone has been interviewed.

I'm not sure any major podcast app searches inside descriptions apart from Google Podcasts

jings

Fully loaded Mac Pro costs... $52,748. This is just maxed-out hardware. No software, no screen. pic.twitter.com/o3oXrALAPv

— Eli Blumenthal (@eliblumenthal) December 10, 2019

Uhhhh pic.twitter.com/JG9XqKD6BX

— Collidal A̴̴̸̸̴̢̨̨̢̧ (@CollidaI) December 10, 2019

holy shit

ridin cross the land, trunk full of RAM, posse's on my tail because I'm in demand

@siracusa @caseyliss @marcoarment

Lots of pearl clutching about the 50k Mac, but here is what happens when you try to max out a Dell: pic.twitter.com/s2P4toCvl4

— Ⓒ.Ⓦ. Ⓑⓔⓝⓝⓔⓣⓣ (@pohsyb) December 10, 2019

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.