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
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Monday, 6 November 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
firms that dump their IP on remote rocks in the Atlantic shouldn't be eligible for US copyright protection
throw em to the pirates
― it me, Monday, 6 November 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.apple.sucks
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 10 November 2017 08:51 (six years ago) link
www.apple.sucks
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 10 November 2017 08:52 (six years ago) link
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.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 10 November 2017 10:13 (six years ago) link
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.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 10 November 2017 10:18 (six years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 November 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
thanks, that stuff is off (0 photos syncing).
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 10 November 2017 10:49 (six years ago) link
Somehow the chess.com app doesn’t work on the X, but Zing works and scales perfectly
― calstars, Friday, 10 November 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 10 November 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
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.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 11 November 2017 06:10 (six years ago) link
my watch is playing locally stored music /and/ measuring my bushwalk (not in workout mode) with a 6% battery hit per hoursix 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.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 11 November 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link
which watch is it?
― mh, Saturday, 11 November 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
s3 non-lte
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 11 November 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
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.
― Modern Sounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 November 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
Actually suspect this may be happening due to slightly loose lightning adapter for headphone
― Modern Sounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 November 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
Maybe finally time to switch to Bluetooth
― Modern Sounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 November 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
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
― Modern Sounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 November 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
And now I leaned over and it turned the thing off again
― Modern Sounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 November 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
This sounds like impacted fluff in the lightning port. Have a rummage about with a toothpick
― stet, Sunday, 19 November 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
Oh yes, good idea. Phone is new, but still. Usually use rubber of plastic toothpick for this
― Modern Sounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 November 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
Still suspect it may be a side effect of the rat tail pigtail junction between the adapter and the male earbud jack
― Modern Sounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 November 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
Using factory issue Apple air buds doesn’t seem to be triggering this
Also: how do I shot power on for Mac mini?
― Modern Sounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
Never mind
― Modern Sounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2017 01:34 (six years ago) link
Exactly
― El Tomboto, Monday, 20 November 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
Got 10 gb of old pics lying around my phone, which won’t sync with Photos or iTunes. Impossible to get rid of
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
install dropbox, turn on camera upload while connected to wifi. delete from phone once synced to dropbox.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
or image capture?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
Or install the 99c iOS app Deleter (which I think by default deletes all except your favourites - but I think you can tell it to delete those too)
― Alba, Monday, 20 November 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
Thanks. I finally got Image Capture to recognize the 5000 pics on the phone. Now I’m fretting about pressing the delete button, worried that there might somehow be some unsaved pictures in there
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 07:15 (six years ago) link
save them to your computer first?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 08:47 (six years ago) link
Image Capture stalls when trying to import and Photos considers them "already imported". I'm just being paranoid, these are all on icloud and my HDD, so I just need to go through with the deletion (no idea why all these pictures are lying around on the phone despite having iCloud Photo turned on)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:40 (six years ago) link
ah wait, I understand your problem now. iCloud library is *terrible* about getting rid of old already-downloaded pictures (it will aggressively and expensively upload new pictures taken that day rather than move old ones).
If you're sure they're already on iCloud (eg you can see them at iCloud.com or in Photos on a Mac), then the only way to get rid of them is:a) Back up your phone -- either to iTunes (with a cable) or iCloud (from settings)b) Erase all Data and Settings (to wipe the phone)c) Restore from the backup
That deletes all the local copies and replaces them with the iCloud proxy assets. I had to go through this just last week and it drove me crazy until I bit the bullet and wiped/restored.
If you try and delete them with an app like Nick is suggesting, that will delete from your iCloud Library too, which I don't think is what you want.
― stet, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 11:06 (six years ago) link
Right. Thanks a lot. Just ordered a new iphone so I guess this will resolve itself when migrating but what a hassle. It took me ages to understand why my phone is inexplicably filling up.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 11:11 (six years ago) link
so I did indeed fix the problem by restoring. The problem is that I now have a bigger problem: 80% of my apps are greyed out and stuck on "waiting" or "loading". I've tried manually synchronizing, rebooting, fiddling in the app store to unfreeze the load process but nothing seems to work (sorry for turning this thread into apple support).
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 09:26 (six years ago) link
have you signed out of and into your app store account? that might kick things up the arse a bit
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 09:32 (six years ago) link
Restart the phone
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 12:11 (six years ago) link
thanks tried restarting, logging out of app store, of icloud, but nothing :(
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
I've had this before but … can't remember the solution :/
― Alba, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
Me too. I think I had to try and buy something so I could agree to updated terms and conditions
― stet, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
Dear @AppleSupport, we noticed a *HUGE* security issue at MacOS High Sierra. Anyone can login as "root" with empty password after clicking on login button several times. Are you aware of it @Apple?— Lemi Orhan Ergin (@lemiorhan) November 28, 2017
wot's going on here lol
― 龜, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
jfc
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/28/root_access_bypass_macos_high_sierra/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
mike hanle y weighing in?
― the late great, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
wow at this one weird trick apple doesn't want you to know about
― sktsh, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
more elegant solution would've been to put a nice sudo button on the touchbar of the macbooks pro of course
― sktsh, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
You can set the touch bar to authenticate sudo for you. Not that we need authentication anymore like(Seriously, fuck Tim Cook’s Apple already. Even the “iTunes installer wipes your external HD” era wasn’t as bad as this)
― stet, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
long, slow, grim deprioritization of macos iirc
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
I'm gonna buy a grey box from a local PC builder next time I buy a computer
maybe put freebsd on it
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
I can’t really explain exactly why but Mac OS is just so much more graceful and polished than windows, which despite countless iterations still feels keep kind of clunky.
― calstars, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 01:33 (six years ago) link