I HATE APPLE

I get the impression that the Windows kernel and shell orgs are basically good at their job, and Marketing insists on crapping things up to justify their own existence and the fact that you still ostensibly have to pay for Windows

also i didn't think it was possible but apple made the podcasts app worse. worse!!

agreed. new podcasts app is garbage. can't find anything.

imo they should integrate the GUI team and the hardware team

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/d/surface-book-2/8MCPZJJCC98C/TC4H

specs-wise, this is... good? just make one without a touchscreen and with a good-ass keyboard and trackpad and I'm in

I have the microsoft surface desktop keyboard, and it's good! they can make good ones, I think the surface books use some soft surface tablet keyboard bullshit though

has apple ever had a good podcast app, on anything

i updated my moms iphone iOS when she visited a few weeks back and she was almost in tears with how bad the podcast app update was. "i had it just the way i liked it why would they do this? who cares about these big pictures?"

yeah i wouldn't be surprised if the podcasts update actually hits publishers' stats

this... doesn't address the core issue, but pocket casts is great and definitely worth the money

(ios app)

Is there anything I'm missing from Overcast?

what do you mean?

i've never used overcast but they seem to be more or less on par. if overcasts is working for you, probably no need to change.

i was using icatcher for years, but its ui is like being punched in the face and just keeps getting worse. buy it if you hate yourself.

I don’t think so, they are pretty similar. I have a slight preference for pocket casts. They are both light years better than the podcast app.

this is probably not the thread but my god podcasting is good atm. you could do nothing but listen to excellent free podcasts in every waking moment of the rest of your life.

That's what I do, basically. Yes, happy with Overcast and it's free.

The only thing I miss from having wired headphones is the ability to use the middle button to control podcasts beyond just pause and play. Overcast (and Downcast, iirc) allows you to set gesture controls like 'two taps to skip forward 30 seconds' which is super-handy when you've heard a Squarespace ad for the billionth time. But as far as I can tell, no bluetooth headphone support this. Maybe AirPods do?

Oh no, they don't even have buttons, do they? Is there some tapping thing you can do?

you can double-tap either airpod to do commands you can select yourself (play/pause, next/prev track, invoke siri)

Not the commands that the app defines like skip 30 secs then?

lol they are not testing are they?

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/10/24/ios-calculator-bug/

Not the commands that the app defines like skip 30 secs then?

they do! just confirmed in pocket casts and (ugh) icatcher. youtube changes videos though.

I'm surprised how few people seem to use Castro for podcasts. it's got by far my favourite interface. not quite as powerful as overcast, but it's just beautiful. and somehow its queue system feels less stressful, and more open to whim.

people scared of the embargo, obviously

cosine on Castro, love the queue/inbox/archive system. If they let me search a podcast's archive it'd be perf

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/27/iphone-x-screen-repair-out-of-warranty-fees/

Ouch

has anyone successfully used migration assistant since i dunno 10.9 or 10.10? everything seems to go smoothly but the file permissions get all dorked up. i'm glad there's no longer a way to repair permissions from disk utility

i think i solved my iOS 11 battery life issue - even though i've always had background app refresh turned off, the updated turn it on individually for all my apps. so i had to go back and turn it all off.

yeah same went in a tweaked a bunch of stuff. helped a bit.

it was super weird cause i couldn't turn them off individually unless i went and turned the general setting on. just really funky

turning off notifications for the majority of apps helps too.

anecdotally the new Podcasts app is doing less caching, increasing the pings to publishers' RSS feeds

so that means more site traffic (which costs $ on the hosting side), for the same number of subscribers/listeners

https://www.facebook.com/groups/podcastmovement/permalink/1444696465617971/

Paradise Papers: Apple's secret tax bolthole revealed

"The world's most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show.
They reveal how Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its controversial Irish tax practices by actively shopping around for a tax haven.
It then moved the firm holding most of its untaxed offshore cash, now $252bn, to the Channel Island of Jersey."

Greedy dicks

firms that dump their IP on remote rocks in the Atlantic shouldn't be eligible for US copyright protection

throw em to the pirates

https://www.apple.sucks

www.apple.sucks

tonight my watch suddenly had 25 mb free and went haywire. i restarted it and it recovered to 450 mb, then dropped to 400 mb within a couple of hours. i changed the system language and it jumped to 2.3 gb free.

this is the second time i've replaced a chunk of the music stored on it, and the second time it's lost entire gigs of storage (the first time i had to factory reset). it's like it's caching all the music i removed without reporting its usage accurately or even cleaning it up. there are no reports of this anywhere, so i don't know what's going on.

fwiw there's no way in hell i could have maxed out the storage because the music app will only store 2 gb of music, which is less than half the usable storage (around 5.5 gb iirc), and i don't have anything else storage-hungry on there.

ime after a system update the photo preferences will often "magically" switch on features like "icloud photo stream" and other nonsense, you might want to check those

thanks, that stuff is off (0 photos syncing).

Somehow the chess.com app doesn’t work on the X, but Zing works and scales perfectly

Somehow the chess.com app doesn’t work on the X, but Zing works and scales perfectly

my watch is playing locally stored music and measuring my bushwalk (not in workout mode) with a 6% battery hit per hour, while my 8+ is in low power mode and has lost 40% in 7 hours. i’ve barely used the fucking thing.

my watch is playing locally stored music /and/ measuring my bushwalk (not in workout mode) with a 6% battery hit per hour

six hours of music playback, 11 hours of hiking, dozens and dozens of time checks, numerous dictated replies to messages, about to go to bed and the battery’s on 56%. i cannot run this thing down. meanwhile the 8+ needed topping up twice.

which watch is it?

s3 non-lte

Stuff keeps going in unintentionally on my new phone, Music starts playing or Voice control goes on, presumably due to some kind of haptic snafu.

Actually suspect this may be happening due to slightly loose lightning adapter for headphone

Maybe finally time to switch to Bluetooth

Just did it again. Turned on Spotify and made a starting up sound that was different from the one made by the remote on the earbud wire

And now I leaned over and it turned the thing off again

This sounds like impacted fluff in the lightning port. Have a rummage about with a toothpick