I HATE APPLE

Wow I hate that.

lol, i kind of do too, reminds me of possessor

at least part of the purpose of wearing a mask is letting people know you're wearing a mask!

My daughter's iPhone 7 has gone kaputt (stuck on Apple logo). I've exhausted all options so I think I'm going to have to restore it but I just wanted to check if there was anything I can possibly do? She's devastated about losing her photos (she doesn't have them backed up).

Plug it into the wall and then https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/force-restart-iphone-iph8903c3ee6/ios

Thanks calstars. I've been round and round that loop. I think it's a restore.

God, it's been a while but iTunes is a bag of shit.

If it's that badly damaged it could be a hardware thing. Could be worth taking it to Apple to see if they can do anything at all (beyond upsell you a new phone) before restoring it, which guarantees nobody else can get photos off it. Depends if she can wait that long, of course

narrator: they tried to upsell user chinaski a new phone

Lost an ear pod, back to wired , it’s fine

I have had a goddamm calvacade of Mac-related bullshit since the beginning of 2021. I hesitate to say anything because I don't want to be an old man literally yelling at a cloud, but here goes:

caveat: really only one of these can be directly attributed to Mac.

1.) NOT A BIG SUR FAN. I hate the #ffffff windows with high contrast that make the "save" and "browse" buttons near-imperceptible. I hate how you can't resize the default window size anymore. I hate how when I take a screengrab, it just doesn't automatically save to my desktop.

2.) WHY WON'T CHROME REMEMBER MY PASSWORDS ANYMORE. It used to. It still offers to do so. But it doesn't. I can't rightfully blame Mac, but I can say that this didn't happen until after I hit the Big Sur.

3.) If you thought #2 was not relevant to this thread, then how about how every morning, I have to CHANGE MY CALENDAR TO DEC. 1, 2020, OPEN AN OLD COPY OF FIREFOX, LOAD UP A SITE THAT STILL USES FLASH, and then CHANGE MY CALENDAR BACK TO 2021.

I could take one, possibly two of those, but all three are fucking doing me in.

Since I installed Big Sur my Mac's been randomly rebooting. No idea what's causing this, console log is too crazy to parse :(

They really really fucked up the Console app

The big sir window resize thing is an acknowledged bug I think

Lol big sir

Xps

I didn't even make it to the shop before they tried to upsell me a new phone! It needed a restore; I did it myself.

Safari seems snappier

You can really feel the difference with the 500 MHz Power PC upgrade

I will say this thing is fast as fuck.

Fast at giving me tiny little windows!

my magic trackpad sometimes lags appreciably at random times for no readily apparent reason, so that sucks

That sucks
I have the magic keyboard and mouse and they have been flawless

my 16” MBP bricked itself today, two months after apple replaced essentially everything in my first one. i think the thermal design can’t handle the newer i9 chip, and it just cooks itself during normal use.

last time it took 3 weeks to get thru service. it’s gonna suck to wait for them to turn this around a second time, and i’m worried a replacement will just fail again. it’s fucked that a $3300 machine is this unreliable. all of my macbooks 2003-2015 lasted for years before any logic board issues popped up.

what am i supposed to do now? ask them to downgrade me to an i7? demand an upgrade to a newer model?

If they’ll give you an m1 then take that (it works, it’s faster than the machine you have, and if you need the pro stuff (ports, screen size) trade the m1 in for the m1 pro when they release it later this year

thanks caek. i might try that. how’s backwards compatibility tho? i’m concerned most of my music software (written for intel/x64) will be unusable with the new brand of processors :/

Ah yeah no idea on specific software

yup, looks like i’m stuck with intel for a couple more years probably—translating between instruction sets is gonna hurt performance and in some cases fail altogether. plus it’ll be impossible to run any non-native plugins when a host program (e.g. Ableton Live) ports over to run natively in “apple silicon” (which is actually just ARM).

unfortunate... but it will be cool when the audio software industry catches up and we can start to run audio signal processing on GPUs, which it seems will finally be afforded by apple’s new machine architecture.

nerdy details for audio ppl here:
https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2020/6/25/apple-silicon-a-developer-helps-to-unpack-what-we-know

Thanks, that’s helpful.

is there a way to get imessage to run on a Windows PC? idk if this is Apple's fault or Microsoft's fault ... but it is annoying because I have a significant number (more than 1, so it's not just one person doing this) of clients/co-workers who have iphones and mac laptops, and in the happy Appleverse, if someone sends me a long ass text with attachments and links, that can easily be opened and responded to on the computer ... it doesn't occur to some of them that like me, there are lots of people with iPhones who have Windows PCs who do not reside in happy Appleverse.

fwiw I have considered shelling out for a Mac, but considering much of my work involves software that is Windows only ...I'd be running a VM a lot so ...

afaict no, iMessage is Mac/iPhone/iPad only

I think iMessage relies on Apple security hardware.

good to know! Now I don't have to feel even mildly guilty for not scouring the internet for a workaround.

There’s this thing 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/21/22242143/beeper-universal-chat-app-imessage-whatsapp-signal-telegram-pebble-founder

admits that it’s “using some trickery” in doing so

so it'll stop working any day now

Yeah it’s clearly a violation of TOS

good

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/soon-you-may-be-able-to-change-the-default-music-service-in-ios/

great job, apple, now add FLAC support to the iTunes/Music app so i can live my life

FLASH POLL

2014 macbook pro, 15" retina. the battery is at 2000 cycles. if it's not plugged into a power source, it can crash anytime it gets below 50%, and it goes from 100% to 50% in like 20 minutes, depending on what you're doing. Not only that, but the OS itself seems to be telling me that there's a problem. REPLACE BATTERY SOON, it says.

diagnosis: battery failure
prescription: either put it to death, pay apple to replace the battery, or do the battery replacement myself.

if i fix it myself, i'd probably get something like this:

https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Retina-Late-2013-Mid-2014-Battery/IF117-046?o=5

battery replacement got progressively more complicated on macs of this era, of course. you can take a look at the repair guide here: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Retina+Display+Mid+2014+Battery+Replacement/90276

like most things, i would rate myself as a step above beginner. i believe that about 80-90% of the time, i would complete this replacement without a problem. for the times that i failed, i'd guess the cause would be me accidentally breaking something, or possibly losing a tiny screw. but i looked through the guide, and it just looks like a long, intermediate level pain in the ass that i can get through.

but there's a reason no one replaces their own batteries on later macbooks right? it fucking sucks.

anyway, what would you do

livestream the surgery. keep a peanut tin handy for the teeny screws

impossible, my fingernails are reprehensible and disgusting.

... unless i wear gloves (which actually come with that kit)?!

but i don't want to wear those gloves, because my hands will get sweaty. welp, this is a pickle

Buy the gloves of your choice and make it pay per view to cover the whole shot

whatever you do don't get pickle brine in there

could this be the quasi-criminal enterprise i feel like my entire life has been building toward?

it is. might i suggest going on AliExpress and finding the least reputable seller you can turn up, for added danger

FWIW, I just had a similar situation with the battery in my 15" 2017 MBP and bought the MacFixIt kit (Apple wanted $199, a local shop was going to charge $350, so I went for the kit)

It does suck and is time-consuming but the MacFixIt guide was great (the comments on each step were valuable). I did it, it worked out OK, and it's one less thing to worry about until the Apple-processor MBPs finally ship.

battery replacement got progressively more complicated on macs of this era, of course. you can take a look at the repair guide here: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Retina+Display+Mid+2014+Battery+Replacement/90276🕸

I bought a maxed out m1 MacBook Air btw. Vulgar amount of money when you max everything but my last MacBook Air lasted seven years (and still works fine tbh) so if it lasts anything like that then seems worth it. Cannot wait to post to ilxor even faster.

ok for real... god dam! just looked at the steps, and i would just use it plugged in for the rest of its useful life. I only have a 2012 a friend gave me cuz he was gonna toss it. It had hard disk cable... but that was nothing compared to this.

*a bad hard disk cable

if it looks like a probable PITA to do it yourself, then i'd pay for the replacement service (assuming the cost isn't astronomical).

it's probably worth saving that laptop if u don't need a faster machine right this second. for one thing, i've had pretty terrible luck with my 2019 Intel MBP: my second replacement arrived from apple's repair center just this morning. the hardware failures in my last two were apropos of nothing, and both times they required new logic boards (as well as various other HW replacements). the thermal design seems to be a problem on the new crop, although it's unclear whether it's a software issue.

then there are the new apple-made cores now in production to consider. IDK what yr software needs might be, but the industry has a long way to go before it ports everything over to accommodate the new line. even the big boys with lots of resources are gonna need time: things like Adobe Suite are frequently crashing on the new M1 chips. so, depending on what non-native apps you're using a lot, it might be good to hang on to the Intel machine for another couple of years and wait for the industry to catch up.

xps
sweet m1 macbook air purchase! apart from a few hiccups, i have been really pumped about my m1 mac mini purchase. two thumbs up. ideally i would have waited until next year's model for a macbook pro, but given the shape of my current laptop (not just the battery, also the display and just being beat-up), it was a convenient time to upgrade to a desktop model

Holding out for a 12”…fuck 13”