I HATE APPLE

Pfft, if you can't get mad after bringing in a computer for a new battery then hearing back that not only did they not put in a new battery, now they want to charge you several hundred dollars more for an unspecified repair, essentially totaling the cost of a new computer, then I guess you can't get mad at anything. I feel bad for the suckers that get messages like this and okay the repair.

that is fucking insane and I am sorry for suggesting the official repair was a better idea

okay, I just got off the phone with Apple, and in some ways it makes perfect sense and is also crazier than it seems. a while back I installed a hard drive and some RAM myself with generic, non-Apple components. Apple, however, whenever they so much as do anything beyond opening up a computer, automatically adds a 90-day work guarantee to whatever repairs or changes they make. But because there were non-Apple components I installed in the machine, Apple would not/could not invoke its 90-day work warranty. So that $1,000 quote was in essence a fee for replacing my perfectly good hard drive and perfectly good RAM with Apple versions of that hard drive and RAM so that Apple could add that 90-day warranty to its work, in this case simply replacing my battery. Long story short, they will not replace my battery - or essentially do anything to my computer, ever, even though it is out of warranty and I want to give them my money - unless I have Apple replace my hard drive and RAM with Apple products.

wow, that is super obnoxious

okay, so I now have some cash, and want to buy a new laptop. should i continue to wait until Apple unveils these ARM machines or just plunge in...

tbh i'm working on a 2013 13" MBP and it served my needs well until a year or so ago— i've started needing to utilize InDesign and Acrobat a lot more for work and other purposes, and the machine simply cannot keep up with my commands at this point.

other than this, I'm mostly using it to write, download/listen to/manage my digital music files, as well as teach seminars and such.

i know i asked about this over the summer, but thought it wise to ask again, since things might have changed? anyway, i'm sorry i'm such a clueless idiot about this stuff, i just don't have time to parse through all these reviews that litter the internet.

and thanks in advance for any help!

I would wait if you can, they've said they will introduce the first ARM laptop before the year's out and it will probably be a 13 incher.

i'd wait as well, unless you have specific needs for Intel

Go for used, every time. The depreciation is insane on these things. At least with recent generations the RAM is on the motherboard and the chance of a non Apple SSD is very low, so you won’t run into the scenario you’re in now. That said, the SSDs can be third party upgraded up until a few years ago.

Thanks y'all. Going to put some dough aside for the purpose. I appreciate it!

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In waiting for arm but it i depended on a specific non apple big application like indesign I would wait to hear there plans and err on the side of getting an intel. And yeah used is a pretty good deal on macs these days (better than it used to be, and I can only imagine that gets even better as the impending arm transition drives used intel Mac prices down).

Thanks again for the advice, all. I ended up plunking down for one of the newer, faster Airs, refurbished (of course). With my education discount and AppleCare plus tax, turned out to be $1400. Arrives on Wednesday. Will report back!

I've started using Spaces and just switched to a new MacBook. Why is the dock now showing only on my main workspace and not the others? I can't find this setting anywhere in preferences for mission control or dock. Googling finds no answer. What's going on??

Oh, I figured it out. I was creating new workspaces (or are they called desktops?) by dragging the apps up there in Mission Control. That creates them in full screen mode, in which you can't see the dock unless you do some weird double-swipe manoeuvre that I'm completely unable to replicate except by chance. More zoom window, less full screen window is the answer for me.

This shit shouldn't be this hard, even for an ageing doofus like me.

They are called Spaces but named Desktop 1, Desktop 2, Desktop 3, etc. (Thanks Apple.)

At home I prefer a deskspace over something like a worktop. But on the road I’m all about purpose-driven stacked control views, separated by spaces

I’ve been a Mac guy forever and still have never used Spaces.

I use a lot of spaces, one for each writing project that I'm actively working on, plus one for mail, calendar, bibliography manager, another for browser. I would not want to do without it, even though the old 3x3 grid version was better.

Long time user of Spaces - especially so now that I work from home and only have one monitor. ILX gets its own space.

Maybe I should try it out.

alright maybe someone here knows the answer to this: is there a way to see the files that you have uploaded to the iCloud music library and ONLY those files? Apparently I hit 100,000 uploaded files (this doesn't count things I just added via Apple Music, but actual files I've uploaded that weren't in Apple Music, or didn't match); this seems basically impossible to me. But I can't find a way to see these files by themselves. Anyone know if this is possible?

update: I think I found it, more or less. look at 'songs' in music, make sure you have 'cloud status' as a sorting option. had hundreds of things in there that for whatever reason aren't matched even though they are available in Apple Music. Also was able to see all the things that failed in their uploads for whatever reason, cleared all that out. Could also see the depressing list of things that were still in my library that were 'no longer available' presumably due to licensing changes.

You can also make a smart playlist, and have it filter only those that are unmatched.

https://i.imgur.com/gFO7j1w.jpg

Wow:

This is a jaw-dropping paragraph. https://t.co/ix4JFLCZJe pic.twitter.com/QFl5MXoqPY

— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) October 25, 2020

wtf!

Pretty sure Apple has a search engine ready to go as well (Siri suggestions hint as much). So double threat to Google there: if DoJ rules out these payments: Apple isn’t going to switch to Bing or some shit, it’s going to make a new competitor.

Did their Maps app ever turn out to be a worthy, workable competitor to Google's? I remember it having some serious problems at launch, but I have no idea if it made up ground (I don't have an iPhone).

Maps has improved but I’m not going to give up my hundreds of bookmarked spots in g maps

It was beyond terrible at first but it’s on a par w/Google now, in London at least

The core navigation has been as good if not better but the right now I’m in Central Park and if I search for a restroom, Google tells me which ones are actually open and Apple does not. It’s that kind of information gap that makes me stick with Google.

I really need a pee.

Bushes?

Google sufficed

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoK4HXRNoQ

well my headphone adapter has now failed. the one that was included with the SE 2020. it lasted about 6 months. for a few minutes i was telling myself, 'well, tracer, you DID use it on your evening jogs pretty much every day, and that's a lot of jostling!' and then i was like, hold on. i'm not going to feel guilty for USING it.

You got one in the box? I didn't get one, I had to buy it. (I used my gf's for a couple of weeks).

Weirdly, the first time I used it (and it was Apple-branded, not third-party), it didn't work. After a reboot and some (surely ineffectual) blowing in the socket, it was fine and has been since. It does seem flimsy, doesn't it?

yeah mine came in the box!

the way it failed was one channel just went. finished my run with a Surgeon mix tinnily pounding in one ear only.

Almost every Apple supplied cable grinder I have had has failed all too quickly

Grommet not grinder

Was wondering

why not just buy $900 wireless headphones from Apple that look like brain worms escaping?

Don't want people to know about my head full of brain worms

Recently started experiencing a sound buffering issue on my iPhone 11 running 13.5.1. Wondering what 14.1 will do.

Maybe it’s battery throttling

that macs still open mp3s with 'apple music' by default is ridiculous - this huge streaming shopfront just to play a file!

No greater sign of confidence than developer.apple.com going down hard on the day of an OS release.

Hey Apple users:

If you're now experiencing hangs launching apps on the Mac, I figured out the problem using Little Snitch.

It's trustd connecting to https://t.co/FzIGwbGRan

Denying that connection fixes it, because OCSP is a soft failure.

(Disconnect internet also fixes.) pic.twitter.com/w9YciFltrb

— Jeff Johnson (@lapcatsoftware) November 12, 2020

yep, it was