Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

once you've used some shitty KVMs you understand why people who need them for daily use will drop hundreds of dollars on a decent one

also I got an M1 Air and I am excite (although I won't get it for weeks yet)

Would it be a nutso suggestion to Remote Desktop into the laptop from the desktop rather then KVM?

Pretty laggy for anything other than basic icon dragging and typing text.
I’d just plug the keyboard into the monitor and buy a second trackpad (e.g. used or refurb).

in the end i got an HDMI switcher for £8 and a USB switcher for £18 (which can connect 4 peripherals). i think i’m going to be able to just hit two buttons and be done with it.

I got a pretty expensive Thunderbolt dock because my MBA has only 2 ports, and I need to power it, connect an external monitor, ethernet, one to three external hard drives (including key drives), plus charge my peripherals.

Remoting in shouldn’t be laggy if you use adaptive or whatever it’s called. I’m working remote and half the time I remote into my work computer because it has a faster connection to the work server than if I use vpn

These machines esp the “pro” only having 2 ports is just a slap in the face to customers

Eh it’s fine.

Airpods Max are £520? When you can get Sony MDR 1000s for about £200 now that seems insane pricing.

V-Moda headphones are also better and not at a price point that screams "mug me on general principle"

no wireless charging, less space than a Nomad.

That’s a silly price

Target market: rich people called Max

I think the new Max headphones have a 3.5mm jack, but they don't show it in any of the photos. Does anyone know?

I don't think they do – in fact, they won't work with anything other than Apple devices on the very latest OS releases, according to the small print

eh, they’ll probably work but without all the extras? just no firmware updates, etc

Yes, that looks right. The smaller small print:

AirPods Max can be used as Bluetooth headphones with Apple devices using earlier software and with non-Apple devices, but functionality is limited.

the spatial audio would be pretty sweet if you’re watching movies on the couch and have a sleeping housemate

xps yeah I think they have a lightning jack and there is a $35 cable to hook up other gear.

this company is so absurd

Their crusade against the 3.5mm headphone jack is a goddamn crime against humanity.

“spatial audio”

Funny that they've kept the headphone jack on the 2019-20 MacBooks... but chucked most everything else.

Headphone Jack Pro Max*

*dongle is available that gives you an actual computer should you need it for some reason

The jack must infuriate them - simple, robust, reliable, can't be made obsolete (covers full frequency range, humans persist in having two ears)

Apple exposing all the ways Facebook tracks you with it iOS app is really quite something pic.twitter.com/hDhB85qk1L

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) December 16, 2020

https://www.wired.com/story/ways-facebook-tracks-you-limit-it/

(...billlions of ways facebook tracks you, explained...)

...It's worth emphasizing that Facebook, like Google, promises to use this treasure trove of data to improve its services and make life safer and more convenient for its users, as well as generating more profitable ads across its network. You are, after all, using everything Facebook offers for free. If you don't trust Facebook's intentions—which is by now understandable—then you really need to quit using it altogether.

"maybe get somebody to take that bear trap off your foot?"
"but i like the clanking noise it makes when i walk!"

something something “my wife” joke

Traded in my pro max for a mini, so much easier to hold and use. I’m a one hander I guess

re: Big Sur, i am very grateful that MacOS has now been brought into the Screen Time/Downtime fold. still slightly confusing to select which device you're looking at, and how to time-limit websites, but it basically works, and works consistently across devices, which is the first time this has really been possible in the Apple ecosystem afaik. The ability - as a parent - to remotely and immediately grant requests for time on certain apps BUT NOT OTHERS is huge.

i will also say that after 30+ years, Apple Music née iTunes now finally remembers the position of the playhead on whatever track you were last listening to, even across restarts, the app closing, etc. No more scrubbing to find where you were in that 3+ hour Luciano mix you were listening to.

30+? exactly how long have I been isolating in my house?!

lol uh yeah i meant 20+ whoops

I was so close to loving Apple Music but it doesn't properly sync play counts and Last Played data back to my Mac library. You almost did it, Apple.
(I know, 99% of users will never care...)

^play count bug irks me as well

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-hyundai-motor-stocks/hyundai-motor-shares-surge-17-5-on-report-of-battery-tie-up-with-apple-idUKKBN29D02A

Anyone got an M1 yet?

me
it's fast! but it won't change your life if you are a regular bozo like me

I use Macs primarily for scores so even though I'm itching to upgrade my machines, I'm not doing it until the larger screens are updated.

I told my wife we should use our $1200 to get her an M1 Mini and a big monitor and she's pondering the idea.

i have the 13" m1 mbp, no complaints but nothing revelatory so far.

i'm still waiting for the february golang release, and then the dominos fall (docker, full toolchain stuff), but tbh i think i'm done waiting.

Anyone got an M1 yet?

i've been using a new m1 mac mini for about a month now. feels good!

the m1 architecture compatibility stuff has been somewhat annoying, but not too bad. and some of the 32-bit applications that were broken by upgrading to big sur actually work now on M1 (i'm assuming Rosetta 2 is doing its magic there)

...If Rosetta can do that, why not just put in mainline Mac OS X for Intel?

not sure how consistently it works. but it's worked on at least a couple of Steam games i have that previously failed to launch

WTF are you serious 32bit apps work again? That's crazy.

I don't really need a new computer but figure by the time they're onto the second iteration of whatever's coming next I'm pretty excited.

WTF are you serious 32bit apps work again? That's crazy.

ok now i'm feeling paranoid so let me just say SOURCE NEEDED on myself there. i mean it's true for a couple steam games but

Has anyone been using an M1 Mac with Adobe CC through Rosetta 2? I've heard conflicting things about how well it runs? Specifically Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.