I HATE APPLE

Man up and make a proper mix, ditch the tracklist and let the music speak.

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dan you’re otm. easiest solution just one long file. i could even paste the tracklist into the lyrics field for old times’ sake.

^ yeah pretty easy to do that in GarageBand

is there any reason not to buy a macbook from amazon instead of directly from apple (not an ethical question)

I was about to say you’d have to jump through some hoops to get applecare but it appears they have it as an option when you buy on Amazon, so... no

is applecare worth it? i find it confusing and am skeptical

all insurance is a risk, one bad experience taught me to just go ahead and do it

i never get it fwiw but it depends on individual circumstances (are you a dropper, do you have other insurance, how much is the hardware to replace, etc.)

I haven’t done the newer one with accidental coverage on a laptop, but yeah.. it’s a gamble like all insurance

Basically if something dies on your mac after the initial warranty and it’s still under applecare they just fix it. I know people who have had the logic board die, I think I’ve only ever used it when I had a hard disk die over a decade ago.

Apple care worth it for the air pods. Replace the batteries right before the two years are up = new air pods basically

I had an iMac that turned out to be a lemon once and now get AppleCare for everything basically. Go to store, get work done (or replacement issued), the end. It's really simple.

fwiw apple hardware has a one year warranty and if you live in a country with a working government (not the US) then you are covered by consumer protection law too. AFAICT applecare is useful in year 2+ or as accidental damage coverage. if you buy the hardware with a fancy credit card you probably get accidental damage coverage for 3-4 months too.

i don't really get the math. i saw a person online say they had to pay $400 to repair a cracked screen when they didn't have applecare. but applecare costs $379 for three years (on a macbook) and there's a $99 service fee for screen repairs so that's more than just paying for screen repair.

It depends. I've never seriously cracked a phone screen, and usually replace a phone within 5 years; not so for my last several desktops. My last iMac had a power surge kill the hard drive, and I had to have it sent into a third party which cost me a lot more than than $130 for Applecare would have. I understand the cost of Applecare is much higher for phones and laptops, though, so harder decision.

but what about the next three times you break the screen, huh?

It's 2020. It should be easy to share a playlist of music with my wife in the default application of the richest computer company in the world.

These will do it:
https://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=mxexportfilesfromplaylists
https://dougscripts.com/apps/m3unifyapp.php

I've always gotten Applecare, and it paid off with my current iMac when an ant somehow managed to crawl under the monitor glass and die right in the middle of the screen.

Nice.

ant killer

*obligatory tens of thousands of "my computer is buggy" unfunny jokes here*

Elvis isn’t that the same as just dragging the files from the playlist to the Finder?

I think one of them will include a .m3u in the export? I've never actually had a need to do this...

Yes - m3unify - thanks Elvis!

I have another one. I feel like an idiot for not figuring this one out.

My phone's on silent. However, certain notifications will still generate a low-pitched 'boop'. Do you guys know what I mean?

I can I turn off the 'boop'????

"Vibrate on silent" is OFF under Sounds & Haptics?

no it’s on. i don’t mind the vibration. i just don’t want the “boop”, which is different.

Hmm. I'm not sure that's the not the source of the "boop". I think I know what you mean and it may be the way this phone vibrates on certain surfaces. Or I may be completely wrong and this is actual sound out of the speaker which you don't want.

Alarms go off when your phone is silent. Nothing else that I can think of

My phone has recently started to automatically pull screen brightness down to 50%, when both Auto-Brightness and Reduce White Point are off, and it's not in low power mode. Consensus seems to be somewhere between "you've been using it out in direct sunlight for too long, it's trying to reduce internal temperature" to "get it replaced, it shouldn't be doing that". The former has been true lately, because my daughter's got me back into Pokemon Go. But right now it's sitting next to me on the bedside table and it's stepped down from around 80% to 50% all on its own over the course of 10min.

What with Tracer's wireless charging pad mis-alignment mishap, this model does seem to have some overheating issues (if that's what this is).

Wah

As with many things, a restart seems to fix the mysterious 50% brightness thing (it was still happening this morning). After a reboot, it stays as bright as I set it (though I think auto-brightness is a sensible feature and I will turn that on).

Wow, first the button click was the haptics, now this “boop” is actually the vibration?? I don’t know whether I’m coming or going

I've had to move back to Safari on my iMac, as Chrome has become really unstable over the last few weeks - with even the basic google search page taking a couple of minutes to load. Safari is running smoothly - so no idea what the problem is. It's not a big deal, but it'd be good to be able to use Chrome if I want to.

^ same
Also experienced the brightness issue a few weeks ago but not since. Maybe they fixed it in the latest update?

Not sure if this is the best place to ask for Mac help, but here we go.

A while back I replaced my mac's hard drive with a SSD. At a certain point it wouldn't update anymore and I after reading online I came to understand that this is a regular problem with people that replaced their drives. The consensus fix is this: back up info, reformat drive to APFS, use a bootable installer thumb drive to install the OS (Mojave) in disk utility mode.

When I try to do the last step, I get: "Your mac needs a firmware update in order to install to this volume. Please select a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume instead."

What now?

is that telling you the thumb drive is formatted wrong?

i.e. did you skip step 1 here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

It is a 16gb thumb drive and I formatted it as specified.

Hmmmm. If the thumb drive is MS Extended, and the drive is APFS, is that the problem? The drive supposedly has to be APFS to work correctly with the SSD. Should the thumb drive have been formatted APFS? That's not what the instructions said to do, but....

Nothing should be “MS extended”. How did you format it?

Sorry, Mac OS extended.

The thumb drive should be Mac OS extended according to those docs even if the Mac is going to be apfs so I’m not sure. Sorry

Ugh, tried to do time machine restore and it's saying I can't because the drive is APFS. Grrrrr

My time capsule drive died and now I'm going to have to pay $250 (at least) to someone to try and recover it. So, you know, I hate apple.

The internet is telling me that to get it back to Mac OS extended I have to do a bunch of shit in Terminal. And the things I need to do aren't clear. It says I need to wipe the drive in terminal but there is a big list of drives. Only two say they are APFS, but I don't know which one to wipe out. Confused and frustrated, I'm about to have a toddler tantrum.

If I throw the mac in the backyard while it's raining, will that fix it?

My time capsule drive died and now I'm going to have to pay $250 (at least) to someone to try and recover it. So, you know, I hate apple.

― DJI, Monday, July 20, 2020 1:08 PM (thirty-six minutes ago)

apple can't make hard drives failure-proof

My time capsule is nearly ten years old, probably time to get a new networks drive.

by at least 5 years yes

I, personally, back up nothing, due to stupidity

why recover time capsule? Was it more than just backups?

Buy a new big drive and back-up again.