Is the mini that much smaller physically? it's only a few mm on paper. The 12 mini screen is also the same width in resolution - 375x812 vs 375x667
― stet, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
Thanks all, I think I'll probably be going with the SEโ my partner has one, so I can feel it out on his, but I'm pretty sure I'll make the adjustment relatively easily. (I can't even remember the name of the phone I've been using, tbhโ it's a 2017-era Android, and was top of the line for that period).
― Take, eat; this is my body. What I got, you got to get (the table is the table), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
xp the 20% loss in pixel height is what gets you imo. i could never go back, and discord in particular is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope on a small screen iirc.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
eh i feel like i'm doing the numbers wrong here. getting confused about DPIs. maybe the screen size doesn't feel that different. anyway the SE is cheap.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
i have found the new SE to be a good buy
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 02:57 (two years ago) link
Aye, you get a bit more screen on the 12 Mini vs the SE (72cm2 vs 61cm2), even though it's a smaller handset (cos there's no home button and the screen's practically edge-to-edge), and it's higher resolution OLED - BUT it's no wider, merely taller, and I don't know how that affects things like Discord UI. Maybe it scales badly for the higher DPI. A 19.5:9 aspect ratio but the same screen width isn't going to make (landscape-mode) videos any better either (well, I guess you get "full HD" in terms of resolution, but with pillarboxing and the image is no bigger in your hand).
So, yeah, SE is great value atm. Maybe by next year the 12 Mini will be going for similar prices to the SE at launch. I do like those straight edges :) But, as I think has been pointed out, for all the noise coming from the small-phone contingent (me included), it has not sold well. Mini = 5% of the 12-series sales? People seem to have made their peace with big slabs o'glass.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 10:53 (two years ago) link
I think a lot of that was all the pent-up demand for the mini going on the SE 2020 when it looked like that was the last gasp for small phones. Weird to launch that, soak up all the demand, and then launch the mini
― stet, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 11:05 (two years ago) link
we're probably biased here in loving the SE/mini size - sounds like they're not selling well
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 11:18 (two years ago) link
IMPORTANT LIFEHACK UPDATE:
https://i.imgur.com/SPM36TM.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
ok i'll bite: why the mirror, the USB fan and what looks like a rolling shelf vs. a desk
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:09 (two years ago) link
I donโt think theyโll sell the mini next year. Itโs the worst selling phone theyโve ever made.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
The se sells better (in spite of being smaller than the market appears to prefer) because itโs half the price.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/the-iphone-12-mini-hasnt-sold-well-according-to-multiple-estimates/Geez - it looks like the older SE may have cannibalized sales from the 12 mini as well, with a lower price and better sales numbers. Comments complaining about battery life. Might not see a 13 mini at all.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
I thought I was desperate for one but when it was announced the bad battery was nagl, but not having the good camera was the deal-breaker. so close, though
― stet, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
The mirror: So I can see behind me without turning around; see what I look like before I go into a meeting.
The fan: Sometimes I get hot.
Shelf vs. Desk: On a shelf because I've got other stuff on the desk. Also, I haven't forgiven myself for spilling a drink all over the last Mac Mini in 2014.
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
where is the keyboard, and mouse and monitor?
do you sit on the other side of this desk? this picture confuses me.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
I almost don't want to ruin the vision y'all had in your heads.
https://i.imgur.com/gJ3DcVN.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
hahaha oh my god.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
needed that touch of HDR https://i.imgur.com/KubHDDx.jpg
― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
lmao
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:47 (two years ago) link
Makes my mug of blood a little more conspicuous, but ok.
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
My iPhone SE (2nd Gen) developed some cracks on the glass back after less than a yearโs worth of dropping it, which was not a problem for my iPhone SE (1st Gen), which I dropped on the ground repeatedly with no major ill effects for 5 years or so. So I bought an Apple silicone case (Iโve never used an iPhone case) and I just put it on and I hate it!
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
Might replace the case with a piece of tape over the back of the phone
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
i've always done fine with cheapo silicone cases for ~$5 off eBay or Five Below. they go yellow pretty fast, though
― Nhex, Thursday, 20 May 2021 02:29 (two years ago) link
Had the weirdest experience last night, thanks to Apple.
My wife stopped at the grocery store and sent me a text to FaceTime her so she could show me a few options rather than texting a bunch of photos, fine. I FaceTime her and get someone else's ceiling, not a ceiling I recognize in the least and a strange voice. I hang up and FaceTime again, this time my wife answers. She lost signal and called me, said to try FaceTime again. Did it again, same stranger. My wife texts me to ask a follow-up. I respond and get "sorry I think you have the wrong number", mind you this is the same ongoing text string I've had with my wife for at least 8 or 9 years now. I call my wife, thankfully she answers, tell her what's going on. She asks me to send a screenshot of the weird text. I send the screenshot and get another text saying, "please stop sending me things, you have a wrong number". My wife calls a few minutes later and says she never got any text, so I explain it again.
Now, my wife had literally JUST traded in an old phone at Verizon about a week ago and was literally a block from the Verizon store, so she stopped by, wondering if maybe somehow her old phone wasn't wiped or something got mixed up in the trade-in. They couldn't find anything wrong, so she heads home.
Meanwhile, I do some googling, and finally find the culprit. Apparently if you FaceTime a contact and they are NOT on WiFi and have their settings set to not use data for FaceTime, the iPhone (in Apple's infinite wisdom) will cycle through other numbers for that same contact instead. Turns out an old work phone under my wife's contact info on my phone is now reassigned to someone else with an iPhone and I was getting connected to that. The weird thing is that apparently once I made that initial "wrong" FaceTime connection, my iPhone automatically reverted to that number as the default for my wife's contact info - so any subsequent text, call or FaceTime was going to that old number. As soon as I deleted the old number from her contact, those errant texts shifted out of my wife's text thread and into it's own, associated with the now deleted number.
Everything is back to normal now, but that was an odd one.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
Why I won't be falling for any 'dongles are good actually' messaging any time soon
https://i.imgur.com/Ff4VyWi.png
― Alba, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
This, by the way, for the apparently onerous task of having a portable HD drive and an iPhone plugged in at once, so I can transfer photos from one to the other.
― Alba, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 00:32 (two years ago) link
Apple solved the issue of ports by removing them
― calstars, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 00:37 (two years ago) link
And I do love to see this helpful message come up when literally the only program I have running (and doing nothing as far as I can see) is Finder.
https://i.imgur.com/OfOQ19u.png
― Alba, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
macOS is just a pile of crap these days, isn't it?
― Alba, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
I have a feeling this happens when I commit the cardinal sin of forgetting to quit Photos before attempting to eject the external hard drive.
― Alba, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link
Even though Photos has now quit the HD is stuck in some limbo state.
― Alba, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:16 (two years ago) link
Iโve seen that message before
― calstars, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
My go to futile experience is trying to sync my phone . Finder just decides my phone doesnโt exist and ejects it despite it being unlocked and turned on and six feet away from a 5G router
― calstars, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
eject! eject!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 08:14 (two years ago) link
is the photo library on the external drive?
― akm, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
Yes
― Alba, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
I get that I should remember to quit Photos before I try to eject the drive but you wouldnโt think it would send the disk management into such a tailspin if I forget.
― Alba, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
Is the Photo library an iCloud one? It handles that setup quite badly, because there's a background process that uploads/downloads from iCloud Photo Library even when Photos isn't running. That will keep a lock on the drive and prevent you unmounting it/fuck up if the drive disappears
― stet, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link
No, I steer well away from iCloud for my photos now
― Alba, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
Time Machine started failing at the "preparing" stage. Googled the log messages, found one person who failed to get an answer. Reformatting with APFS, crossing fingers. Sigh.
― lukas, Sunday, 4 July 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
yeeesh
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 July 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
a time machine backup has a half life of about 6-12 months in my experience
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Sunday, 4 July 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
half that if the network is involved
on the bright side it is much much faster on big sur
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Sunday, 4 July 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
Indeed. If anyone is on Big Sur/11.x right now, be sure to reformat your TimeMachine drive(s) as APFS volumes. MUCH faster improvement on speed.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 4 July 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
I wonder if it does that by default if you let TM format the disk
― calstars, Sunday, 4 July 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
figured out why Time Machine hates me / is enragingly slow - it just doesn't like my workflow. it wants to wait to back up until your Mac is idle, and since I have a laptop, rarely is the machine idle and the external backup drive attached at the same time.
of course, I figured this out after I shelled out for a dumb expensive solid state external drive.
― lukas, Friday, 30 July 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
Just plug it in once a week before you go to bed
― calstars, Friday, 30 July 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
yeah i never liked the automatic Time Machine backups. only downside of doing it manually is that sometimes the setup period can get very long
― Nhex, Saturday, 31 July 2021 02:27 (two years ago) link