New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

FaceID works mostly fine (snappier especially after turning off the attention requirement) but once in a while the phone won’t unlock no matter how long I stare at it.
How do you activate reachability with the new gesture?

reachability: turn it on in settings, pull down on the bottom of the screen instead of up

It’s in the accessibility settings.

aha ok thanks - weird that they buried it in the settings. I used it all the time on my 6

about a month in face ID is the feature that noone wanted. appreciate the (almost) full screen, border-less design but face ID is a nuisance.

thinking that if they update the iphone SE this march as is rumored i may downgrade, but that's in the context of more broadly wanting to de-emphasize smartphones in my life

hm, just not working fast or what?

fails more often than touch ID, requires more thought as to ‘how am i gonna look at this thing til it unlocks’

I want there to be a new SE but I probably won't even buy it until I hit the end of the road on OS updates on the current one. Definitely trying to tune out from my smartphone as much as I can

feel like touch id, at least on the early ones where you had a learning curve of the timing and exactly how to get your finger on there and it became near effortless in the second gen

face id is a little tougher but I’ve already caught myself responding to the feedback curve of how to hold the phone, face angle, etc so it maybe fails once every other day

having to lift your head a little when grabbing your phone from bed is rude, though

not unlocking when on the table and youre looking down at it is the biggest offender. despite my attempts to machine learn it. with touchid the biggest fail point was wet/dirty hands or gloved hands but otherwise worked great

also with touch id you could give multiple people access to a phone (ie put yourself on yr parents phone for tech support purposes) - cant do that with faceid also fear that youll mess up the machine learning by having it scan the non-primary users face too often

Lame. Wonder if they’ll add the touchiD to the back of the phone for future versions like originally rumored?

so my SE just straight up shut down on me this morning, on 17% charge. though to its credit it politely faded out the music first. it was -4C outside where i was using it. is this the vaunted low-battery fakery switcheroo everyone was up in arms about a couple of months ago? i put it into my pocket to warm it up, then tried again and it gave me the "you gotta plug me in" animation. i put it back in my pocket, and because i'm addicted to my phone, took it out again 5 minutes later, this time inside a warm-ish bus, and it started up, though it only showed 7% charge, which dropped to 4% in less than a minute. but then, like a miracle, never went below 2% for the rest of my commute. thanks apple?

it qualifies for a £25 battery replacement until the end of 2018. not free but still pretty good.

if the battery is more than a couple of years old that's just life, especially in the cold. it's very difficult to accurately estimate how much is left in that situation.

i've had that happen in serious cold even with a relatively young battery

if it does it minus the cold, then worry IMO

I dunno my fb feed today has been full of (french) articles on how the cold will make your smartphone function badly

yeah my phone did that all the time when i lived in actually cold places

Yeah the switcheroo was designed to stop that happening.

cold fucks with batteries. my 6 would shut down at ~30% in 3˚ weather, and once i warmed it up it'd take a while (and a couple of restarts) for the phone to register that the battery was fine again.

btw night shift is pretty good, been using it in beta on ipad

does it make all the text brown/red when scrolling on purpose or is that just a visual artifact of how everything has been mellowed out

Night shift rules

i just got a new macbook air and night shift is not all that different from adopting the display profile of my 2009 macbook

what are you supposed to do distinguish between the two-finger page turn swipe and the two-finger notifications center swipe?

🚨 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/a-new-mac-mini-and-a-retina-macbook-air-are-imminent-report-says/ 🚨

They still make a MacBook Air??

I’ve stopped keeping tabs, I probably will never buy a personal laptop again, if I ever need to buy my own work computer it’s gonna be a locally assembled desktop and I’m gonna put like OpenBSD on it or some shit

Keeping personal stuff on my work computer would creep me out.

I have a work laptop that I literally never use. I don’t want to keep my personal stuff on a work computer, and I don’t want rhe hassle of two computers.

Oh I just meant that all my work is on my work computer and if I can’t see myself buying a new laptop just for personal stuff if my current one breaks. There are very few transactions I can’t do on my phone, i play games on Switch, all my other hobbies are selected specifically to be analog. There’s still times where I want to do recreational typing and printing at home but idk I bet I could mostly live without it.

playing a little mavis beacon as it were

Power Mac G5 benches at my son’s high school. They don’t probably see how fascinating this is. pic.twitter.com/ugm0I83pnY

— Naoki Hiroshima (@N) August 24, 2018

are they real empty cases or modelled after them? gonna go with the latter

someone is going to the trouble of making fake but realistic-looking Power Mac cases for use in furniture?

i mean there are lots of apple fanbois right?

hm i hadn't reckoned with how many insane people there are, true

A new MacMini would be nice, yes. (On my third now, and it just fell out of warranty the other week so bring on a refresh.)

Nobody watching this?

I fell asleep. Only woke up in time for the new camera stuff which tbf looks incredible. The Pixel 2 whipped the iPhone camera and this looks like a response to that.

We're on this thread now: Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

Perhaps a mod could lock this one?