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=mxexportfilesfromplaylistshttps://dougscripts.com/apps/m3unifyapp.php
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
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.
― Irritable Baal (WmC), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link
Nice.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
ant killer
― this has been the best year fuiud (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
*obligatory tens of thousands of "my computer is buggy" unfunny jokes here*
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
Elvis isn’t that the same as just dragging the files from the playlist to the Finder?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 07:52 (three years ago) link
I think one of them will include a .m3u in the export? I've never actually had a need to do this...
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 17 July 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
Yes - m3unify - thanks Elvis!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 18 July 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
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'????
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 18 July 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
"Vibrate on silent" is OFF under Sounds & Haptics?
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 18 July 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
no it’s on. i don’t mind the vibration. i just don’t want the “boop”, which is different.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 18 July 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 18 July 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
Alarms go off when your phone is silent. Nothing else that I can think of
― calstars, Saturday, 18 July 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
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).
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 18 July 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
Wah
― calstars, Saturday, 18 July 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link
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).
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 19 July 2020 10:01 (three years ago) link
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
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 July 2020 10:51 (three years ago) link
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.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 19 July 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
^ sameAlso experienced the brightness issue a few weeks ago but not since. Maybe they fixed it in the latest update?
― calstars, Sunday, 19 July 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
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?
― Cow_Art, Monday, 20 July 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
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....
― Cow_Art, Monday, 20 July 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
Nothing should be “MS extended”. How did you format it?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 20 July 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
Sorry, Mac OS extended.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 20 July 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 20 July 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
Ugh, tried to do time machine restore and it's saying I can't because the drive is APFS. Grrrrr
― Cow_Art, Monday, 20 July 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
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, 20 July 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
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.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 20 July 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
If I throw the mac in the backyard while it's raining, will that fix it?
― Cow_Art, Monday, 20 July 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
― DJI, Monday, July 20, 2020 1:08 PM (thirty-six minutes ago)
apple can't make hard drives failure-proof
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Monday, 20 July 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
My time capsule is nearly ten years old, probably time to get a new networks drive.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Monday, 20 July 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
by at least 5 years yes
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Monday, 20 July 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
I, personally, back up nothing, due to stupidity
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Monday, 20 July 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
why recover time capsule? Was it more than just backups?
Buy a new big drive and back-up again.
― dan selzer, Monday, 20 July 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
I had my overflow Lightroom library on it. :(
― DJI, Monday, 20 July 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
Anything you don’t have an off-site copy of, ideally located in a different seismic zone from you, is something you don’t really have, I’m afraid.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Monday, 20 July 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
Everything I REALLY care about is on Flickr, but lots of stuff in my lightroom backup that I'd rather not lose.
― DJI, Monday, 20 July 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
Can USB sockets start to fail? Of the two on my MBP, one is now noticeably much slower to recognise external drives. I've tested with different drives including a brand new one with a better quality cable. And once connected, data transfer speeds are 20x slower.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 06:11 (three years ago) link
Entirely possible. On my previous MBP (2012 rMBP) one of the USB ports cut out similarly. It was still under AppleCare then and Apple fixed it for free.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
Turns out my drive is unrecoverable. :(
― DJI, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
what about the drive it was backing up?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
That one is fine but the Lightroom archive is gone so all photos before 2018 (that aren't on Flickr) are gone.
― DJI, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
ahhhhh bastard. i’m sorry.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
Feels like the dam is breaking on the App Store rules bullshit with this fortnite thing
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 15 August 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
I dunno. I wish it was a small indie developer that was suing rather than a tentacle of a giant conglomerate that's busy shoring up their own monopolies.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 17 August 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Only Nixon could go to china
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 17 August 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
absolutely deranged stuff here from apple
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/08/21/apple-files-response-to-epic/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 22 August 2020 05:43 (three years ago) link
https://adamchandler.me/blog/2020/08/20/linked-where-did-macs-resale-value-go/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 August 2020 03:45 (three years ago) link
lol this guy is a maniac.my upgrade cycle on macs is averaging about 9 years. not sure what he’s using his for but by my math i’m coming out ahead!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 28 August 2020 06:04 (three years ago) link
i think the point is that, until recently, if you wanted to upgrade every time a new product on the same line came out you could do so very cheaply, like your were leasing a macbook for a year for 20% of its cost. which is really no more expensive than upgrading every five years or so.
my main laptop is 7 years old btw so i also think this is the insane behavior of someone with too much spare time. but i remember losing 25% (!) when i sold a 3 year old (!) macbook pro in like 2013. that ship has sailed.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 August 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link