Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

FWIW, my main book and comic reader is a iPad Mini 3. If I had to get something now, I'd probably get that $329 9" iPad. You don't have to spend iPad Pro money on it.

Physical media won't let me back it up in multiple locations and will be a big problem when climate-change enhanced fires burn all of California down. Portability and redundancy forever!

I think the best way for me to die would be in a fire accelerated by my bookshelves, or crushed by them in an earthquake

i want nice big text and graphics tho

i don't want to get old man eyes so soon

Physical media won't let me back it up in multiple locations and will be a big problem when climate-change enhanced fires burn all of California down.

It's the backing-up-in-multiple-locations thing that's causing climate-change enhanced fires tho.

yeah that's the thing i don't even need it

ugh

basically i want to read comics on it, i don't want it for anything else, and i don't want to buy physical books/comics

My 10” Pro is rapidly becoming my main computer. Did all the work on the site from it this morning. I think I’ve used my work Mac for about 20 minutes this week, and that was to pull together a presentation from three other decks. (iOS still sucks horrifically at multiple docs in the same app)

We've owned 3 ipads and I never found a use for them. My kids like it, which is another reason not to have it around.

For a company that prides itself on design, I actually don't find them comfortable to use at all. Any intensive tasks are much more comfortable to do on a laptop, and anything less intensive I'd rather just do on my phone.

It's the backing-up-in-multiple-locations thing that's causing climate-change enhanced fires tho.

FWIW, I'm not using the cloud. Follow-ups to Maintaining a Digital Music Collection

agree with both man alive posts.

I prefer reading comics on my iPad mini 3 to my iPad Pro 10.5”. On the pro, the scans get big enough that they suffer if they aren’t super hi res

Any iPad with a retina screen and 128gb or more of storage will serve u well as a comics reader imo

For a company that prides itself on design, I actually don't find them comfortable to use at all. Any intensive tasks are much more comfortable to do on a laptop, and anything less intensive I'd rather just do on my phone.

otm, after that initial period of subscribing to magazines i never got around to reading there didn’t seem to be any point. maybe as they get close to being an actual macbook proxy for most people (now?) they’ll find a place for most people.

for me the clincher is not being to type on your lap without it all going everywhere. the smart keyboards are pretty solid but it’s still precarious.

I love the pro I bought last year, but I find I don’t use it as much as I’d like because I cannot use it around my 5yo.

re higher prices

Apple's new iPad Pro seems to bend pretty easily https://t.co/EgHrG1iBEo pic.twitter.com/35RHNgO3SQ

— The Verge (@verge) November 16, 2018

yikes

tl;dr looks like the microphone and induction pad are in the worst possible places for that

in messages conversations used to be in bubbles/rounded but something changed and they're all ugly squares now. anyone know how to change it back?

Preferences>bubble edge display>rounded

weirdly not an option for me but force quitting / reopening fixed it. maybe i need to update to 10.13.6?

deeply regret installing mojave. constant freezing.

i'm sorry to hear that but thank you for reaffirming my decision not to install until i finish a very important project

btw, for ppl with touch bar MacBooks: mine froze the other day, and I had no idea what to do because there's no power button... there actually is, it's on the right end of the touch bar. it's there. maybe this is old news. i thought that was cool.

My new favourite Shortcut is Upload to Imgur. Handy for getting pictures ready to post on ILX, which I always found a massive faff on iOS before

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c0c8520be8734d0faec0096b83c4703b

I like using the TinyPic keyboard for ilx image uploads. Uploads it and created the bbcode for you, all from zing.

Ooh

Thanks alba

apple music will work on amazon echos in a few weeks

poor ol siri

god i am still digging just having adequate memory and being able to leave programs and documents sitting open for days at a time

$ uptime
5:02 up 8 days, 3:48, 2 users, load averages: 1.32 1.79 2.14

~dark mode is good now~

mojave is definitely the worst; really need to roll back to pre-update but scared to lose my computer for a few days

$ uptime
14:33 up 12 days, 8:15, 2 users, load averages: 0.76 0.83 1.00

woooo

Everyone I know has the stupid watch now so I guess I should get one too. But the only use I can see for it would be to see what song is playing

i literally know no one with an apple watch

I have one. I wear it sometimes. It’s best for letting you see who’s texting you without taking your phone out of your pocket.

It’s also great when you have your baby as the wallpaper and said baby always asks to look at it and starts thinking that everybody’s watch has a photo of her in it.

My idea for the watch is to get the lte version, take off the band, put it in my pocket, and use it as a mini phone / music streaming thingy

what even is dark mode

It's for when you want to sound like you're doing something dodgy but actually aren't.

you can do dodgy things in it if you want tho

the thing about the apple devaluation and the link in that with people not buying so many iPhones now is that apple always (usually) made beautiful objects but now that a phone is all or only screen there are not many ways in which an iPhone is a cherishable object over something else that all or only screen, is there?

esp. in a case.

they could have had they come out of the gates with a notch-less screen

Yeah man, apple made some killer bezels back in the day

my SE as a thing to hold and have is better, more lovely imo, than an equivalent android would be but an XR is no different than something else that is only a screen. If it's only-screen then it's only a screen.

i’m still using an 8+ and i legit forget that it even has bezels.

the race to eliminate the notch is more interesting than the race to fill the phone face with screen imo. when the notch problem is solved once and for all, this era of notchy phones is going to look totally ridiculous.

Never want to upgrade from my 6s really. Although I did just order a mini headphone amp so that would obviate the need for the headphone jack around the house.

what is a "notch"

A kind of haircut, or a pattern of baldness, according to Samsung

extremely funny that their products aren’t as inelastic as they thought

lower your goddamn prices u xunts

and it’s incredible that they’re blaming everything except their own greed