I HATE APPLE

Enjoying the real keyboard talk---how are Magic Keyboards?

Identical to the MacBook keyboard before it all went wrong. Nicely engineered piece of gear.

I use one everyday and it makes up for my irritations with the MBP keyboard. I’ve no particular issue with the action but is is ridiculously easy to double strike a key on the internal keyboard. Never happens with he the magic keyboard.

MBP is still miles better than the worst keyboard of all time, the original surface type cover which has no space between the keys so it’s almost impossible to type without looking at it.

WHY AM I SYNCING MUSIC TO MY PHONE FROM THE FINDER WHYYYYYYYYY

The watchOS 6.1.3 update includes important bug fixes, addressing an issue that could prevent the irregular heart rhythm notification feature from working properly for ‌Apple Watch‌ owners in Iceland.

ok, I know this was probably related to government healthcare regulations and in what countries they're allowed to report specific metrics to users but I'm choosing to misread this as "we had a software bug where we can't analyze the heart rate of Icelandic people"

'big time irregularity' (1993, one little indian/elektra)

nice one

https://www.cultofmac.com/685669/larry-tesler-the-apple-employee-who-invented-cut-copy-paste-dies-at-74/

:(

Did they try hitting Ctrl Z on him?

Star Wars director confirms Apple won't let movie bad guys use iPhones

https://www.techspot.com/news/84163-star-wars-director-confirms-apple-wont-movie-bad.html

Ironically, iPhones are often the preferred phone of choice for real-world criminals, usually because of Apple’s refusal to unlock them for the FBI and authorities.

anyone who loves civil liberties and end-to-end encryption, I’m in for

uhhh I mean other than the bad people. good in theory, can enable bad things, but only as a bad side effect

oh please they'd kill to have Vader shown with an iPhone

I hate that they removed the automatic magnifier function when you are editing text.

Me too, but I am slowly coming around to the hovering-insertion-point. Not in Messages though, as soon as you try to do that the message scoots to the bottom of the screen and you can't place the cursor in it without bringing up the keyboard, rinse-repeat-AARGH.

jed_ otm, it’s bullshit

iOS 13 has entirely fucked up autocorrect as well. I mistyped the word "liked" and it had been corrected to "lujj oh ee" wtf? A couple of times I've sent a message before checking and got some very confused - what on earth does that mean? type replies whereas before people would be fairly able to decipher an accidental autocorrect now it just replaces the mistyped word with bullshit. I'd do anything to go back to 12.

it even autocorrects words you’re finished with! like it’ll autocorrect two at a time

Consider using SwiftKey

yeah i should. i used Gboard for awhile until i ejected Google from my life.

SwiftKey is good

I've set up my laptop with my clicky keyboard and shitty monitor at my desk at home so I can work from home effectively and man oh man is typing on a real goddamn keyboard at a desk infinitely preferable to smartphones or what

I don’t know, I nearly posted something about the ‘Australian Health Monster’ which is technically correct.

just cracked my 6s screen yet again. what do i do next, buy another used 6s? or is it time to move on? i can't tell you how much the 3.55mm headphone jack thing makes me fear a newer model. i've already burned through 3 or 4 different SEs and 6s over the past few years, each w/ its own screen replacement or two. the batteries always suck too. most of all though i miss the size of the 5/SE, that was the best. all the others just slip out of my small hand too easily

I feared the missing headphone jack so much and used the shitty apple phones fore a few months before I bought a pair of $50 wireless earbuds and it's been honestly life changing - I didn't realize how much having a cord sucked until it was gone.

Granted 99% of my phone listening is podcasts when walking the dog or whatever so not 'serious' listening.

Getting a headphone “dongle” is pretty painless. I was also apprehensive but it’s really no big deal tbh

I had decent results with Lightning-to-3.5mm adapters but then I got a pair of Sennheiser bluetooth headphones and now use those all the time

ok you have reassured me

You have to get one of those pop socket things otherwise anything bigger than a 6s is unusable imo

joygoat what earbuds did you get

I got these based on a wirecutter review as they were the cheap favorite: https://www.amazon.com/Skullcandy-Sesh-True-Wireless-Earbud/dp/B07VPX4W35/

Also pondered these based on consumer reports but the ones above were $10 cheaper that day: https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Signature-Bluetooth-Earbuds-Charging/dp/B07HGL3J31/

What’s the best/most trustworthy place to buy a used iPhone? I know that q has been answered before but I think it’s in the fold of this thread I can’t fully open. I’m in the US and my ancient beloved 6 is dying at the worst possible time.

swappa was what they said

Thanks j., looks good

still getting eat-everything issues with backblaze :(

ALSO: my macbook just (like an hour ago) started switching off when i remove the charger lead. plugged in again it starts up fine and says the battery is at 100%. unplugged it goes straight off again.

battery information has it's 100% charged but "charging: no" -- does this just mean it isn't charging because it's fully charged or is something else wrong?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

I'd check this out

ah cool thank you

Apple buys the Dark Sky weather app - the one that gives you a forecast for the exact place you are - and announces Android app shutting down and third-party APIs to be cut off.

The Our Incredible Journey Era of acquihires has mostly wound down it seems like, that’s the highest profile one I’ve heard about in some time

it’ll be interesting because dark sky had some aggregation in their api and I was curious how well it was doing in that regard. I’ve actually dealt with weather data providers and it’s such a crap shoot, because predicted and actual aren’t a straight versus relationship, and the theory is the former is related to the latter in the long term but it’s all machine learning and crunching

I need to replace the battery in my iPhone 7. Do I go the DIY route via ifixit or send it back to Apple? I’m concerned about the quality of the replacement battery that ifixit will send vs what Apple has.

laptop still immediately switches off when i unplug from the kitchen socket, but not when i unplug it from the sitting room socket -- i guess the north-facing electricity is a bit spunkier

Battery replacement on iPhone not too difficult. I did it via ifixit on two 5s without trouble

Not sure they’re great batteries either but they do the trick for my kids who don’t have “”””mission critical “”””” phone needs

my iphone keeps on autocorrecting dip to dup. this only the latest in a series of wacky autocorrects including something to do when “drinking” got changed to de-iced and then i tried to write de-iced it kept changing it to... well something else. it’s gone off the rails.

I need to replace the battery in my iPhone 7. Do I go the DIY route via ifixit or send it back to Apple? I’m concerned about the quality of the replacement battery that ifixit will send vs what Apple has.

Thx

The phones after the 6 have the screen glued on, so beware! I did a few 5s and 4s with no issues (although it's always a little sketchy with all the tiny screws and adhesive), and then shattered my kid's 6s screen. You either need some kind of hot plate, or just (as I did) take the frickin thing to the mall and pay a guy $60 to do it. Of course mall trips aren't an option right now, so maybe just find a hot plate or hair dryer and be careful.

I know this is old news but I'm usually shielded from the horror of the butterfly keys by using an external keyboard. JESUS, it's an unpleasant experience, at least for a bad multi-fingered but not touch-typing user like me. I've abandoned my word Macbook Air for this old scissor-keyed one just because I literally cannot work on the other. I've realised that it might not be so much the keys themselves as how close together they are. I'm hoping that the new ones are spaced as nicely as the old keyboards as well as having more movement.