I HATE APPLE

no its apple
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De3YTBFXcAADKTL.jpg

I keep making little video clips of the pig animoji quoting the Communist Manifesto and wailing about capitalism to send a friend

I demand a future version allows me to create my fursona and not just a human analog of my own face

Anyone else having the stuttering iPhone audio issue since upgrading to iOS 11.3? Apparently mostly impacting the 6 and 7 models. More here: http://piunikaweb.com/2018/04/12/ios-113-users-reporting-music-audio-skipping-problem/

It happens to me in podcasts, the native Music app and Spotify. Both streaming and locally downloaded music/podcasts. Restart gets rid of it for a short time, but it keeps coming back.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, April 16, 2018 8:27 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So get this - the most reliable solution I've found to this problem is to buy a Lightning to 8mmwhatever dongle. Haven't had an issue since. But this is the clearest indicator of planned obsolescence I've experienced, or possible swaying of consumers to not switch over to headphone-available Android by indoctrinating them into the... lifestyle.

iOS 11.3 audio stutter is resolved by a backup then device reset to reinstall the OS. I had it and that fixed it.

Of course after I wrote that it happened again today.

FYI don't shut off your phone if you suspect the firmware update has stalled, it will brick it entirely

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2018/06/14/on-the-sad-state-of-macintosh-hardware/

otm

So for the last year or so, my otherwise-perfectly-fine 9 y.o. MBP is taking an increasing amount of time reconnecting to wifi after waking up. Up to a minute these days. Haven't found any satisfactory explanation/solution online. Any ideas?

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 4 June 2018 14:42 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have this same problem and haven't found a reliable solution, sadly. My MBP is roughly the same era too.

I'd be deleting the plist file myself:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/11/30/resolving-stubborn-wi-fi-connection-problems-in-mac-os-x/

my mac mini is unacceptably slow now, even with maxed-out RAM.. and i keep waiting, and hoping

Feeling like an Apple II user in the era of the Mac tbh. Writing is on the wall here

My next computer (god forbid) will run openbsd probably.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-best-mac-alternatives/"> https://www.wired.com/story/the-best-mac-alternatives/

Seriously considering the Razer Blade laptop.

Rogue Amoeba OTM.

They can channel some money into mac upgrades once that money from the HomePod comes rolling in.

i tried a top of the line laptop to replace my 2012 macbook pro and despite far superior hardware inside the visuals/screen looked worse, the speakers/audio sounded worse and [not a surprise] the os was an annoying bloated mess in comparison to osx. i'm hoping mac gets their shit together bc i doubt any of those mac alternatives are actual alternatives.

yup. that's what's so sad/terrifying about this decline. the alternatives are even worse.

^

Hackintosh always sounds the dream solution but no doubt the reality can be a nightmare.

no idea what i'd buy if my late 2012 macbook pro failed today.

i know someone who does a lot of audio work, and he would have loved to stay on macs if there were some sort of reasonably priced "pro" tower, but he recently gave up and bought a pc.

^^exactly where I'm at.

I'm on a 2011 mbp and jonesing to upgrade but.... to what ?

could just stick an SSD in it I suppose

waiting for apple to fix its shitty keyboards before i upgrade from 2010 mbp (which is largely fine still)

My 2011 MBP felt completely new after an SSD upgrade.

^ same experience, don’t think I’ll need an upgrade for another few years

Yeah, the advantage of being on a moribund platform is that hardware doesn't date very fast.

My wife’s 2017 mbp is currently in the shop due to the terrible keyboard, I imagine they’ll replace it with exactly the same part so it’ll still be terrible.

The guy at the Apple store didn’t want to talk shit but it was obvious that this was a frequent issue

this is probably more "i hate microsoft" than "i hate apple" but why does every single iteration of office for mac insist on critical updates every time i open an office application? i've been using office for mac for 10 years on different macs and this has always been the case

It's because Microsoft want to reinforce the notion that Office is a little flakey on Macs so eventually you'll come over to Windows and love it. cf cross-platform glitches between Powerpoint embeds, fonts, etc. None of that "oh it's a Mac to PC thing" actually exists outside of Office, and MS do nothing to solve it because they don't want to. Acrobat / PDF demonstrated it was possible 20 years ago. MS even *removed* the ability to reopen the last set of working documents from Office on Macs. Feature worked perfectly on Office 2013(?) for years, then bing, gone, no comment, no replacement. Single biggest bump in my workflow, at least the apps don't crash much now so I can just leave them open.

I love PDFs

Except when I have to edit them, cosign.

Hackintosh always sounds the dream solution but no doubt the reality can be a nightmare.

i ran a dual boot for a few years, Windows 7/OSX, so that i could edit video in both Premiere and Final Cut Pro. just finding a working OSX distribution that would install was a pain, then it took forever to find drivers (you need specific video drivers to run FCP). it worked fine after setting it all up but introducing any kind of hardware change and it was like being back to square one.

this is probably more "i hate microsoft" than "i hate apple" but why does every single iteration of office for mac insist on critical updates every time i open an office application? i've been using office for mac for 10 years on different macs and this has always been the case

i finally put an SSD in my 2011 mac mini and holy shit i love my computer again :)

1TB HD in the second bay (already regretting not springing for a 2TB) - everything, everything fucking flies. even backups happen incredibly quickly.

Plugged in my old iphone that I've carefully kept at ios 10.3 so that it wouldn't get all slow and shitty in order to back it up, and after it finished it immediately got all fucky: Safari bookmarks disappeared, photo thumbnails are all blank. It could not be more obvious that Apple sabotaged my shit to force an ios update.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/12/apple-stops-selling-2015-macbook-pro/

lol what a shit sandwicj

Just went from a 6700K to an 8700K and build times decreased from 57s to 30s ✨

— Adam Bell (@b3ll) July 3, 2018

It is crazy that as an iOS or Mac dev company, if you’re not using Hackintoshes then you’re as much as doubling your build times. Macs just don’t compete, and your life isn’t getting those hours back https://t.co/grzKKw8SEt

— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) July 12, 2018

rip, or whatever

https://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2018/07/ultimate2018macbookpro-800x425.jpg

…nice

v nice

tempted to buy one of those 2015 ones on clearance (lol at clearance being over 2k)

enjoy the keyboard, and the fucking touchbar, and the four identical fucking thunderbolt ports

(I love Macs, have forever, but I have one of these MBPs and it's a gritted teeth experience compared to my saintly 2012 Retina MBP)

you guys don’t do your builds on a massively parallel memdisk cluster? amateurs

has anyone tested the "new" keyboard. I read somewhere that the 15" with Touch Bar has a slightly different keyboard.

I'm a totally in the tank for Apple but those MBP keyboards from the past year or whatever are HORRIBLE.

update the rest of your mac product line you dicks

Nothing can be as bad as the Microsoft surface keyboard - my work surface has to be the worst laptop I’ve ever had.

I will be getting one of these. It’s a shame they didn’t update the rest of the product line, the an updated MacBook may have been viable.