I HATE APPLE

Settings.
Sounds & Haptics.
Headphone Safety.
Headphone Notifications.
set switch to “off”.

You could have googled it two years ago instead of uselessly spamming the thread.

This is at least the third time someone has told you how to stop it, so I am just going to FP from now on.

https://i.imgur.com/tQkPXtR.jpg

my bluetooth earbuds broke. went to four mobile repair shops who told me to just get new ones. approached three uncles whose office was a wooden box on the sidewalk. they fixed them with a cigarette lighter and a soldering iron whose power cable came out of a vacant lot. pic.twitter.com/s4CsmT5tVY

— A-100 gecs (@PinstripeBungle) April 11, 2023

love this

Wow

Excellent. I've done some soldering in buds. It wasn't pretty.

(ever) resting the iron on the power cord though...eeee

uncle magic

"The iOS 17 update that Apple plans to show off in June will include several new health-related features, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. There will be a feature for tracking mood,"

oh this is right up my alley

Heh the Headphone Safety tip above no longer works; now its Accessibility > audio/visual > headphone notification.

You know that annoying AirPods glitch where one ear connects but the other doesn’t? Since I switched to regular bluetooth headphones that has happened to me exactly zero times

I need an iron shiek rant against apple. can ai do that for me?

yeah my airpods have been doing this. Just the right ear constantly not connecting or even giving the battery dying sound even though it's charged. And generally running out faster. I assume(d) that particular one has a battery not holding charge or something and was about to buy a new pair. Maybe I'll get something else.

My Beats Powerbeats Pro (or wtf they are called) do this to me all the time. Also one of them legit doesn't charge sometimes unless it is super perfectly seated on the contact, so it's extra confusing as to whether it's actually out of juice or just doing that dumb thing. Every time I take them out I have to spend a bunch of time putting them on / taking them off until it's sorted.

just bought some airpod pros because I'm a sucker like that. Always forget how creepy noise cancellation is.

I recommend the nothing stick
$99 and transparent cool af

Bought a watch
Can’t figure out the use case yet but looks cool

was at a concert a few days ago (John Cale!) and received a Facetime call from a friend of my daughter's. confused but thinking my daughter might be using the friend's phone, I opened the call. after a short lag a video image came up of a small room, with an animated figure at the camera (seemingly at a desk), appearing to speak. in the background was a bunk bed with what appeared to be a stuffed/furry walrus, moving, so with someone inside apparently. couldn't hear over the PA (between bands), so held the phone up to my ear and the call ended.

my daughter just got home from a trip and I told her about this and she said her friend had said that I Facetimed her and didn't seem to know what was going on.

my friend sitting next to me saw this, so not a flashback. is this some security bug in ios? weird and creepy.

Horror movie

wtf

https://i.imgur.com/9aWPTVC.jpg

loll

I hate-bought the new smaller Pro. It’s an iPhone.

why hate? looks about as good as any other year's model

my iPhone X is on its last legs so it's time to upgrade but cant make my mind up btw 15 and 15 Pro. The latter doesnt have anything I particularly care for but the better chip makes me think it'll last longer (I use my phones until they're not supported)

i've never regretted spending more extra for the slightly better model + more memory but I justify it by usually keeping a phone for 5+ years

Same, went 15 pro max cos I’ve had the XS Max for 5 years now. Pretty lame it’s still 256 I don’t understand why these things arent 1Tb easily by now.

the square edge on the front of the work macbook pro is bad enough but the little groove they add to it to help you open the lid makes two quite sharp points, right near where my tender wrists sit when i'm typing.

I always get the 256, but I iCloud everything.

the pro max comes in up to 1 TB

The camera image processing system is such garbage. Photos look like crap

My current annoyance is searching for a contact using the system-wide search and having the contact open in some weird view that you can't reach from the app switcher.

“Siri, call goomah”
“Calling goomah”

I did it. I just bought Swinsian, I think for the second time. I just can't handle Apple Music. I always defended it. So many people hated it because it wasn't like iTunes, interface-wise. All you had to do was tweak a few settings and it looked and acting the same as iTunes always did.

I still can't get sync to work. I tried to avoid it for years but spend so much time at other computers now I just wanted to get my playlists sync'd up, but again it timed-out after hours and hours of trying.

But the real complaint is just how slow it is. I did everything I could. It's just like working in molasses. I'm not even talking about accessing cloud Apple Music stuff. That actually works fast! I just can't play stuff from my library quickly, can't search easily. Can't scroll through.

So I downloaded Swinsian again. Pointed it to my iTunes library. It took a few minutes to scan. I didn't set it up to copy the files over, just see the library and load the playlists. When it was done? No problem. Totally speedy jumping around the library.

I just used Swinsian to check out a bunch of stuff I downloaded....so I could then go into Music and add things to a playlist that would sync with Rekordbox.

I may see about organizing the DJ playlists in swinsian and finding a way to sync that into rekordbox.

Fight this generation

My 2015 MacBook Pro shut down the other day with no warning, and never restarted. I've got local guys looking at it right now, and they suspect it could be something as relatively simple as a battery issue, but in the meantime I'm humoring the possibility I may need to finally replace it. I saw that a lot of the M1 chip MacBook Airs have been discounted down to relatively low prices, but I have read differing opinions about whether to go 8 GB RAM or 16 GB (the 8 gb models are the discounted ones). Usually the more RAMthe better, but I've seen claims that the newer chips handle RAM allocation a lot better than the previous ones.

Also, since I would be replacing an older computer, I assume M1, M2, M3, whatever, would all be equally noticeably faster than my previous machine, so that probably matters less, right?

It will be like night and day. That said I'd buy the fastest and best you can afford, given that you will be using it for the next 8 years!

I have the same machine and it’s been knocking on heavens door in many ways so yeah, time to get a new one.

When I finally take the plunge into M-chip world, I'm thinking it'll still have to be 16/512+ (as per my current mid-2014 MBP) rather than any 8/256 base models.
As tempting as the base models are - as Josh points out, they're the only ones you see discounted anywhere (M2 2022 too, now), anything else is a direct Apple order and they never discount anything - this does need to last me at least as long as the current one did. Apple might've figured out how to optimise 8GB, but I suspect even my modest AV editing exploits will be page-swapping like mad with only that on tap. Feels like a bit of future-proofing to go bigger. A refurb to save some cash if I can. Likely don't need the 10-core GPU option.

And, yes, the consensus seems to be M1 was such a leap from the Intel stuff that the incremental improvements in M2/M3 are almost a let-down.

(i've said it before but my work mid-2015 macbook pro (16GB, i7) is still solid*, use it every day for developing, and doesn't need any dongles. i'm almost tempted to buy another for personal use given they are only £300-odd quid second-hand)

(* the bulging battery was replaced last year)

Mine seemed fine, but I'm pretty sure I maxed out on RAM and installed a bigger drive, and I also had to replace the battery. If the guys looking at it now determine it's a battery issue, that's less than $200, so not terrible. If it's not the battery or something more significant, it sort of makes the decision for me.

They were telling me how it seems every year Apple makes it harder and harder to repair or replace things yourself, or outside of Apple's. direct purview. There are certain proprietary parts that shops won't even really sell, because they have exclusive relationships with Apple.

My battery not great but I have a newish charger cable which works fine. Keyboard started flaking right now and I think my iOS will be EOL next year.

Mine is this one:
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i7-2.5-15-dual-graphics-mid-2014-retina-display-specs.html

It's been very solid - aside from exhausted battery shutdown issues (replaced after 1100 cycles in Feb 2022).
Can only run Big Sur and the final security update for that was a few weeks ago.
Latest releases of Photoshop and Lightroom are now Monterey minimum.
Sounds like it's taking off when editing 4k video in DaVinci Resolve. It's had a good run.

I'd be fine with 13.6" Air, I think. I might have to put it inside the old one just to keep Harriet away from the screen, mind.

I bought a MacBook Air in 2010 and it ran great for 10 years. I replaced it (with another Air), whose only issue was not enough hard drive space--that was easily fixed by changing out the HD.

In that time, I've been through probably half a dozen Dell laptops at work.

Certainly went through several desktop/laptop Windows machines in the decade before I had this, but none were anywhere near as expensive as a MacBook. (And they all drove me mad to some degree).
But... I'm typing this on the same work HP Elitebook 840 (i5) I was issued in summer 2014 (W7->W10 in 2019). Though, to be accurate, I'm not typing on it, or looking at it... it's spent most of its life in a dock with peripherals, which I'm sure has helped with longevity.

@dan selzer i looked into swinsian too but afaict they stopped development in 2021. have they started again?

I don't now but I've been using since posting and it's been a dream. On a 2017 iMac. I still load songs into iTunes so I don't have a splintered library, and Swinsian scans and updates with the new music when it opens. But when it comes to jumping around my library and playing music it's totally zippy.

Apple Music is confusing, when I'm streaming it's fine but if I play off my personal library it's sluggish.

Turns out I had a bad logic board. That is indeed pretty bad news, but the good news is my guys were able to find a replacement that, for parts and labor, will only set me back around $230, which is actually pretty miraculous, especially because they will be upgrading my i5 with an i7.

Wow, result

How much to fix a rum keyboard? Asking for a friend