I HATE APPLE

my stance is if I delete an email that was important someone will eventually send another email

go with god

it's all robots nowadays anyway, they're always sending another emails

iphone11 froze up when trying to update. had to contact apple support, did not know about this way of forcing it to shut down: tap the volume up, then the volume down, then hold the power button.
Hoping the update fixed issue where I now have to manually reconnect bluetooth in my car every time, but I'm not holding my breath on that.

how many of those are from your mom
just the ones with ALL CAPS SUBJECT LINES

moms, still great at sorting

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2mdz2c8sh18b8sc/Mail1.JPG?raw=1

I know what’s important

*hives erupt on face*

damn, I think that beats another ilxor I will not name who also has tens of thousands

fwiw, if you have bluetooth headphones connected to your phone, the download option is greyed out on Software Update.

I remembered this today, but I was on wifi with my phone on the charger a couple weeks ago and couldn't figure out wtf was going on. It mentions those two factors but says nothing about bluetooth!

lol that's insane

this is more I Hate My Fat Fingers but I accidentally swiped leftwards across a thread in messages that goes back to like 2006, with photos of my godkids that I prob didn't remember to save. There was a dialog box I assumed said "do you really want to delete" but evidently it said "wtf r u kidding me" because despite my tapping 'no' it deleted the thread anyway.

Because I have messages in the cloud I could jump into the message app and see it disappear from my watch (and presumably when I get home my mac too) and because I backup the phone to icloud I guess I can't recover it from there either, so I guess it's gone for good. Ah well.

btw hoonja doonja of note: https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

I would live an easy way to run a few 32 bit apps. Is parallels the only way?

might just dual boot mojave if i can be bothered. for now i'm not upgrading

I’m not sure if this is a Catalina related thing or if I am just noticing it but the interaction between my crappy external monitor, apples approach to type rendering and the Apple Japanese IME means it’s impossible to read the kanji selection menu and type in Japanese on the external monitor.

Seems like the solution is suck it up or by a monitor with a retina equivalent resolution.

iirc Catalina ditches subpixel anti-aliasing

yes it does, and i can't tell if i got used to it or if they did some further tweaking since they first removed it, because i don't remember what the blissful days of having it were like anymore

it was such a cool hack back in the day, I remember seeing it for the first time and it was like whoa, triple resolution!

iOS Mail continues to be utter trash

'filter by unread' i.e. easily the most useful button in Mail now only works after hitting it a couple of times

new mails often don't show up in individual mailboxes but only in All Mailboxes, or vice versa, many minutes after the push notification has arrived

on Desktop everything is fine

Yes. Mail functionality is less intuitive and efficient in 13 eg moving emails.

App store updating has also been revised by chimpanzees.

insane. tap “today” then tap the picture of your face.

New iOS update appears to fix Mail. lots feels snappier on my SE tbh - keyboards, safari

Holding off on the latest update because my se seems to have battery drain issues already without it.

Is Apple Podcasts even more trash than usual for anyone else? Crashing constantly, if I'm lucky I get about 8 minutes in before it crashes (pauses and blinks away from the homescreen, though it's still open in the background). Restarting the app, restarting the phone, deleting and redownloading the app - nothing seems to work and it's happening with every podcast I try to play.

use Castro innit

otm

Oh I know, I'm way past time to switch to a better podcast player. Just won't be able to do that until I get home tonight, just wish Apple's wasn't completely unusable at the moment.

Castro better than Overcast? I've been using that one for a long time

Castro is made by some Irish fellows rather than Marco Arment

I'm asking about software, not politics!

(everything's political)

Lol phish

ok, Castro has the best instructions -> import from competing apps intro screen I’ve seen. nice!

The new Macbook Pros have problems with popping when you scrub through audio or video and apparently the SSDs make a high-pitched whine or something.

I'm on Overcast but still miss the ease of clicking or searching for new podcasts podcasts. Might go back to Apple Podcasts just for this but maybe i'll first give Castro a chance

I’ve used Pocket Casts for years. The only problem it has is not being able to search inside of episode descriptions if you’re trying to find where someone has been interviewed.

I'm not sure any major podcast app searches inside descriptions apart from Google Podcasts

jings

Fully loaded Mac Pro costs... $52,748. This is just maxed-out hardware. No software, no screen. pic.twitter.com/o3oXrALAPv

— Eli Blumenthal (@eliblumenthal) December 10, 2019

Uhhhh pic.twitter.com/JG9XqKD6BX

— Collidal A̴̴̸̸̴̢̨̨̢̧ (@CollidaI) December 10, 2019

holy shit

ridin cross the land, trunk full of RAM, posse's on my tail because I'm in demand

@siracusa @caseyliss @marcoarment

Lots of pearl clutching about the 50k Mac, but here is what happens when you try to max out a Dell: pic.twitter.com/s2P4toCvl4

— Ⓒ.Ⓦ. Ⓑⓔⓝⓝⓔⓣⓣ (@pohsyb) December 10, 2019

its an insanely expensive machine that fails to address a market larger than a couple of thousand people and will thus not receive upgrades on a useful schedule. granted!

but i'm not sure you learn anything by just saying yes to every option that costs money and seeing what the cost is.

we're back to the good old days of buying memory from Apple being a sucker's bet. they have a video showing you exactly how to install memory! and the case and retaining clips are very well-designed to the point where changing out hardware is easier than in most computer cases I've had

The graphics card is the one upgrade I don't understand - base is the same as an iMac, the next upgrade is $2400. Nothing in between, nothing at all?

I know NVidia got cranky and decided they're going to stop with the macOS drivers for now, but I'd bet that you can slap an AMD card off the shelf into this thing and it'd work just fine. It depends on what firmware the vendor throws on the card, but a bunch of them worked well in the old Mac Pros

I also want to congratulate Apple on having a configuration selector that's insanely more functional than Dell's. I was configuring out a server yesterday, and it does this arcane crap where it says "If you want RAID, you need to select paired drives of the same size" but does absolutely nothing to change the options on hard drives to default to that. They have more configurable options, but each is set up to grief you in that way.

Dell doesn't give a shit because 99% of the people ordering multiple servers are going through an obnoxious old-school sales rep who drops by to do some gladhanding, anyway. They will buy you beers and regale you with throwback tales

siri is so farcically useless and aggressively fucking user-hostile that I’ve just turned it off everywhere

seriously 95% of the time it either completely misunderstands me, misses the first half of what I say to it, tells me to “hang on” indefinitely, craps out for no reason or fails to activate at all

I look forward to a version of the XDR monitor being affordable to me sometime around 2035.

iOS mail is still a bit fucked. slow to update, slow to retrieve, slow to display contents.