Got the new phone and took it out for some test camera shots last night , results in low light obviously don’t match an aps-c sensor or full frame but do seem better than previous gen. “Secret” to the new low light feature seems to be a long exposure (of course) in which the phone seems to encourage you to hold it still as the frame dims and then gradually comes back to regular brightness. In the background there’s probably some anti- shake algorithm running to produce the Final result.
― calstars, Saturday, 21 September 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
The Xs camera was pretty obviously better but still pretty flawed from the first day I used it. Yet most of the reviews at the time were gushing about it. Those same reviewers are now gushing about the 11 Pro and damning of the Xs. So it’s good to hear it might actually be OK this time, but Christ tech bloggerdom is woeful
― stet, Saturday, 21 September 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
I was enthused about this new Apple Watch app that tracks decibels ("Noise") since it could be a good way to remember when to put in my earplugs at those concerts I attend, but it's only available on the two most recent Watch versions. Phooey.
― mh, Thursday, 3 October 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
how are we feeling about this new iOS
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 11 October 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
adequate iirc
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 11 October 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
the share menu is pretty fuckin wild - i don't need all these names popping up
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 11 October 2019 11:32 (four years ago) link
no way, i def want to share my family pictures with someone i met a conference four years ago
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 11 October 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
The new Mac OS Catalina is causing me problems, especially the new music app. It’s busy doing something -“downloading artwork” -and seems to be slowing down my iMac overall. Then the music app keeps crashing and going int “checking library” mode for ages.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 11 October 2019 12:28 (four years ago) link
That’s a feature, not an issue
― calstars, Friday, 11 October 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
not gonna upgrade my mac for months
tap-hold on iOS 13 brings up a lot of bullshit! in music at least I could edit it down, get ride of share for instance
my SE battery life seems worse but man how can you really know
― L'assie (Euler), Friday, 11 October 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
ios13 is my favourite in years. even the music app is more responsive. i agree with too much shit popping up though, and the share sheet is a mess. you can edit the order in which stuff appears but you can’t get rid of all the people’s names afaict.
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 12 October 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
the Mail app is noticeably worse on my SE. If I open Mail immediately after getting an email notification the mail isn't there. A few seconds later, kerrrrlunk the headers show up, and if I'm lucky, the rest of the message. If not, the rest of the message doesn't show up for... a good 15 or 20 seconds? None of that happened on previous versions of iOS. scrolling in Mail is kind of laggy too. it feels sorta janktown.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 October 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
In other news, Apple sends your data to TenCent: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2019/10/13/dear-apple-safe-browsing-might-not-be-that-safe/
That shit is happening on my 11 Pro too.Xp
― DJI, Monday, 14 October 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
Ditto on an X, sometimes you need to kill the app and start again to get the mail to show
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/NpPfgbt/aspens.jpg
Took this with the dark mode, 1/2 hourish after sunset. I was having trouble seeing well enough to finish the hike w/o a headlamp at that point.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
I suspect the mail thing may be due to having multiple accounts and having to wait for the app to check them all
― calstars, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
Love the live lyrics feature in the new iTunes, you can click on any line in a song and the audio goes directly there.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
Took this with the dark mode, 1/2 hourish after sunset.
https://i.imgur.com/aCUPABb.gif
― pplains, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
lol
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
lmao
― de-mamba mentality (Spottie), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
I had multiple accounts before and there was never a problem. Even individual mails just will sometimes not load unless I quite the app and restart. It's really very poor!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
Although for balance I like all the new options on safari where you csn request desktop versions of everything & customise what sites can ask for.
― gyac, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Even individual mails just will sometimes not load unless I quite the app and restart. It's really very poor!
This may be partly the fault of your terrible, shitty and really quite unbelievably outdated corporate server. The Boxer app is good at handling those.
― stet, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
(One thing I've found can help is hitting reply on the email. that forces it to wake up and display them)
If it's the server why was it fine before? (Also not corporate - these are personal emails hosted by Bytemark) (I have a feeling I know which shitty corporate servers you're thinking of though :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
ah if it's personal it's not the issue I'm thinking of :)
― stet, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/15/catalina-system-issues/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 01:13 (four years ago) link
university IT sent a mail saying don't upgrade, first time I've seen that. I'm just annoyed that my system prefs say there's one update waiting, that I can't seem to just say no, not gonna do it.
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 06:48 (four years ago) link
There’s a new update this morning, doesn’t look like it actually addresses any of the shit discussed here & elsewhere
― gyac, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 06:51 (four years ago) link
yeah it's like a gig too, and it took a good while to install, must have had to do some extensive shit
― j., Wednesday, 16 October 2019 06:54 (four years ago) link
I had multiple accounts before and there was never a problem. Even individual mails just will sometimes not load unless I quite the app and restart. It's really very poor!― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, October 15, 2019 6:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, October 15, 2019 6:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Same here - i have 4 accounts in a ocnsolidated view but sometimes individual emails don't appear until I select the single account view. Really annoying professionally.Also, I've had issues where emails i forward would appear as empty to those receiving them.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 07:59 (four years ago) link
euler, have a look at the man page for softwareupdate
― j., Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
share menu so full of junk!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
my wife’s iPhone 8 can no longer use mobile data. multiple restarts later still no dice. :/
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 October 2019 07:32 (four years ago) link
Is she on Three? They’re down (to some extent).
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:11 (four years ago) link
"If your service is affected, click here for updates" ON YOUR PHONE THAT HAS NO INTERNET CONNECTION
― koogs, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:22 (four years ago) link
I’m having to restart my Apple TV every night since the last update because the streaming speed slows to a crawl and even navigating bogs down.
New iOS just bloated up everything with junk.
Wish I hadn’t bought so many music apps on iOS over the last year or it would be easier to look at one of the clean Android options.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:27 (four years ago) link
ahhh it was Three!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:17 (four years ago) link
thanks j! however when I run softwareupdate --list the Catalina update isn't listed, so I can't ignore it that way :(
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 17 October 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
huh, but it is prompting you via the system preferences app? the tag for the update should just be "macOS Catalina", maybe if you tell it to ignore it will even if it's not listed.
― j., Friday, 18 October 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
yes, under the apple on the left of the menu, next to system preferences it says "1 update". I just used softwareupdate to ignore macOSCatalina, and it didn't fail, but the "1 update" indicator hasn't changed. Under System Preferences, Software Update, Catalina is listed as an "upgrade" rather than an update, so maybe they've added some distinction to increase the pressure to update to Catalina?
― L'assie (Euler), Friday, 18 October 2019 05:47 (four years ago) link
perhaps. it seems that even if you --ignore, software update will re-check and re-notify. so if you have the app open it might be accepting the ignore command and then checking again immediately? lol. try it with the app closed.
you can do an additional step to remove the notification from the system preferences dock icon, but you might have to do it again if you are in the habit of opening software update.
https://dev.to/krnsk0/turn-off-macos-badge-update-notifications-4bip
― j., Friday, 18 October 2019 05:58 (four years ago) link
hmm I don't have the systems pref app open. just to be sure, I did the ignore again, and it's there under the apple menu.
I mean I don't care that much, it doesn't bug me to have a number on a list, I mean my mail icon currently says 58 comme d'hab so
― L'assie (Euler), Friday, 18 October 2019 06:15 (four years ago) link
i have grown accustomed to the 1 for the bloated xcode update i am too lazy to clear space for from the app store, but if i get a second 1 on my dock it is too much grief
― j., Friday, 18 October 2019 06:27 (four years ago) link
happily systems pref is not on my dock & there are no other numbers on my dock save the menacing email count
― L'assie (Euler), Friday, 18 October 2019 06:36 (four years ago) link
I will never understand folks who leave email unopened to pile up into the hundreds - surely it’s the difference between giving it a cursory glance and literally never opening it before trashing it in a fit of guilt. I have like 4000 messages in my inbox but no red dot.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 18 October 2019 06:40 (four years ago) link
my emails marked as unread are not indeed unread, but instead serve as a to-do list: these are mails asking me to do something. Since I have to reply to say that I've done the task, once I've done it, keeping them in my mailbox as unread works well.
― L'assie (Euler), Friday, 18 October 2019 07:17 (four years ago) link