New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

keep your hobbyist/specialist optical drives out of my laptop

As a rule, I won't buy a new laptop unless it has a crystal radio.

keep your hobbyist/specialist optical drives out of my laptop

have fun when your hard drive explodes and your backup restore fails

- I went full Apple on the login/filesystem. I'll probably regret linking my login to my Apple ID, but on a machine that supports the encryption in hardware, FileVault is a no-brainer

speaking as someone whose yosemite froze and crashed during an update, i would not encrypt my HD if i were you

it made system recovery much, much harder (i had to take it to a professional)

although i know you are a professional so maybe you know what you are doing

I get so pissed when I accidentally eject my laptop's optical drive bc my laptop turns the drive's power on.

it's like the panic button on my 2000 Camry's keyless entry, i.e. a useless annoyance

have fun when your hard drive explodes and your backup restore fails

the last three system restores I've done to my mac pro, from scratch, involved booting from a memory stick. it has two optical drives.

this is like my boss saying "man, someone has to have a dvd-r around here somewhere" last week when he wanted to put ubuntu on some old dell shitbox we use for a project dashboard. I was like, dude, I am sure it can boot from usb and I had the image on a lil' usb stick in no time

imo using a usb memory stick is more efficient, especially for software installs, because you're not going to have this disc that is useless in two weeks when the software gets updated

I mean, there's also the whole thing about them being hell of exploitable when it comes to corporate security, but that comes down to not putting strange usb sticks in yr machine

you just have to buy your white stripes albums on custom $300 USB sticks now

there's actually a drawer full of blank optical media in my office at work, I even burned pfsense to a CD a few weeks ago, I should probably throw it away though.

Maybe I should just buy CDs and throw the discs away.

actually I was alluding to the backup of your music collection being corrupted and having to rerip the whole thing again from scratch

btw I would like to also note that I personally still do buy compact discs, vinyl records, and I have even got a couple package deals that included cassette tapes and I have the ability to listen to all these things

ooh or I could just buy vinyl and throw the vinyl part away and put the sleeve in a filing cabinet

if you're concerned about data integrity of your music collection it should have an onsite and offsite backup just like any other data you don't want to lose

xxp pretty cool superpower

there is no way I am reripping that much shit from scratch, and if I did, I would shell out for iTunes in the Cloud or w/e

fwiw I have CDs in a box in my basement I don't feel like sorting through and occasionally grab a torrent instead of walking down there and sorting through because it takes seconds

I like to buy CDs that are in cool packaging and I like the smells of ink and the texture of neat stuff. jewel cases can die in a fire, though

actually I was alluding to the backup of your music collection being corrupted and having to rerip the whole thing again from scratch

― DJP, Monday, March 16, 2015 5:20 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

I tried accessing some data I burned on DVD-Rs about 10 years ago and like all of it was corrupted

yeah, I've lost swaths of my music collection before and my solution was, irritatingly, to add albums back one at a time as I felt like listening, or go through a half dozen on a weekend at random, because there is no way I am going to add them all at once

really if you need to rerip the whole thing, you want a machine with multiple CD drives anyway

actually I was alluding to the backup of your music collection being corrupted and having to rerip the whole thing again from scratch

― DJP, Monday, March 16, 2015 5:20 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

I tried accessing some data I burned on DVD-Rs about 10 years ago and like all of it was corrupted

While repro'd optical discs have way better durability than -Rs they're still not really archival. Ideally you'd all be ripping your CDs to tape.

*Prays for a giant EMP to just wipe out all digital data ever*

I only hope I have a pacemaker by that point, save me from living

Had a lovely morning making ringtones. Is there any good reason why iTunes can't just do this with a single button press? I have to import a song and encode it and rename that etc. It's not difficult but an unnecessary pain.

something to do with the legacy of the highly lucrative featurephone ringtone industry I assume

it's almost midnight on a monday and i'm depressed about how my 7.5-year old ipod classic will die soon-ish with no viable replacement.

a thought, if you're feeling crafty:
http://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1cvoet/how_would_i_go_about_making_a_portable_mp3_player/

a raspberry pi mp3 player should fit nicely inside of a large briefcase

i mean you could get an ipod touch for about the same cash of course

The X3 looks a bit interesting
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00E9O6C96/ref=pd_aw_sbs_e_1?refRID=0WNAMCPR8VFVXTHNJHB0

really worried apple seems to be transitioning away from optical media :(

they are kind of already out of it, although the software will support it indefinitely due to video use, I think

thank goodness, would hate to see apple transition away from optical media

:)

you're a tricky one, caek

that nytimes fashion piece quoting Mercola (!) on the possible dangers of wearable computing is some next-level horribleness

but I wondered -- what if it's really crazy stealth marketing? you may not want this apple watch because it's for fitness weirdos and health nuts but what if wearable computing was a little dangerous, kind of like cigarettes?

that nytimes fashion piece...is some next-level horribleness

since i am still pretty new to having an iphone i still say dumb shit to siri all the time, it is funny for now

it is a very weird experience though, i feel strangely self-conscious about it

i still use Siri just to set alarms and make appts, feel like there's still a lot of untapped potential there - but it needs to react a lot faster than it does

only use it for those things you mentioned but its worthless for everything else, and def slow yeah

i've just got an iphone 6 after years with a 3gs. mainly i use siri to send unexpectedly cryptic texts to my wife since siri struggles to understand my accent

just upgraded to Yosemite, looking great so far. loving the dark mode.

at this point it's almost morbid curiosity to see how far I can push it, but I have that 2006/2007 Mac Pro I have now using a relatively modern graphics card, with two four core xeons (8 cores total), and in another week or so it'll have Bluetooth 4 and 802.11ac with Handoff! Not bad for a machine the OS doesn't technically support.

I'm still using a mid-2007 iMac with 3gb of RAM. It's still going strong, with the only weakness being that it takes 5 minutes to fully load Spotify

we still have our 2007 white macbook, it is pretty slow so we don't use it for much though. we also have a 2013 13-inch macbook pro that is only nominally faster than the 2007 one tbh

there is no way it is only nominally faster, and if so, something is really wrong

yea it's been a while since I used the 2007 one so i could just be forgetting how slow it really was