Between this guy and the ifixit guides I've saved thousands over the years.
― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
A lot easier to attempt repairs with confidence when you understand why you're having the issues in the first place.
― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
this is the kind of bullshit that worries me about the mac becoming abandonware https://williambharding.com/blog/technology/linux-touchpad-like-a-macbook-goal-worth-pursuing/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 17 July 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
so my laptop just died again and another resurrection is looking unlikely...
is this the right time to upgrade? i see the macbook pro just got an upgrade and it looks maybe impressive at least inside and maybe better than the last keyboard iteration?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
take it to that guy on the LES whose youtube i posted!
but yeah, now seems to be the least bad time in a while to upgrade
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
This sucks though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8J125s4cg
― Dan I., Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
God I dread the day that my top of the line 2014 mbp work computer dies.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
still seems a bad time to upgrade.... hopefully refresh some more of the line soon......
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
x-post
that is abysmal
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
yeah that seems like a major boo boo if it's not a problem with that guy's specific mac.
but afaict the new 13" (which doesn't have that CPU) is solid, and 15" "laptop computers" all suck anyway.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
apple computing line is still a shit show. how is gruber dealing with all this? still licking their rim no doubt
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
update the non-touchbar macbooks, pls. nobody wants that thing
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
also c'mon anybody who's using their macs for video rendering should be using a desktop mac pro...... o i c
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
gruber mainly posts #resistance stuff now
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
congratulations to the tories
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
is this just with the i9? i think i'd be getting the i7 anyway
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
15" "laptop computers" all suck anyway
ever since retina screens came out, solid agreement on this
I really want the 13" one and have a perverse desire for the external gpu enclosure
― mh, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
i loved my 2012 15" retina tho
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
2010 MacBook Pro with the anti glare screen. Discrete graphics switching controller never worked because even using chrome made the thing switch to the nvidia gpu and that was it for the battery.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
Mid 2014 15”, 512 / 16Scored it for $1799 new in 2015Dope machine Still lust for thinkpads tho
― calstars, Thursday, 19 July 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
ever since retina screens came out, solid agreement on thisI really want the 13" one and have a perverse desire for the external gpu enclosure
Mrs. Telecom's new 2018 13" arrived yesterday and I'm jealous already.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 19 July 2018 06:02 (five years ago) link
anybody know of any good Windows 10 apps to transfer files from my iPhone?
i just want to cut and paste all of my photos/videos. i have used some shareware for this in the past but it seems like Apple keeps updating iTunes specifically to thwart the ability to copy files to your computer.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
If you just plug your iPhone into the computer via USB cable, tap "Allow" when it asks if you want to trust the computer, does the phone not show up in Windows Explorer as browseable?
I don't have iTunes installed on my work computer but that works for me after it searches for and installs the USB driver
― mh, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
yes i click allow but it doesnt show in Explorer. it opens iTunes and that's it. fwiw i have an older phone w an earlier version of the iOS i can copy files from w Explorer fine.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
I think you can d/l iCloud on your win10 machine and then pull down your photos from the cloud assuming you have that enabled on your phone
― calstars, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
hmmm. ive been trying to avoid connecting to icloud. not sure i want to send all my data to an external thing.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 July 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
for some reason i can now read it as usual, guess it fixed itself.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 July 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
I shouldn't give a shit, but it's depressing to know how rich the obnoxious knee-jerk apple fanboys have gotten by gorging themselves on apple stock for the last 20 years
― Dan I., Friday, 3 August 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
I should have bought apple stock instead of a powerbook when macos x came out, is the short version of the story
― mh, Friday, 3 August 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
Without the iPhone it could have gone a very different way. Also it’s not too late to buy in
― calstars, Friday, 3 August 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
if you bet on Apple in 1998 that was a long bet to make
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 3 August 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
I tipped my dad to buy AAPL at the late date of April 2013 when it was in a bit of a trough, it’s up 260% from then.
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 3 August 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
I've got a friend who is an uber-fanboy--like, he literally buys every new apple device, and buys them the day they come out. There's no way he hasn't been buying like thousands of dollars of stock every year. to be so zealous and have so much faith in something and then have it actually work out and pay off must be nice!
― Dan I., Friday, 3 August 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
i bought in 2006 and sold in ... 2007. galaxy brain.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
feel like I need to take silby on as general financial consultant based on posts this week
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
My actual financial advice is “get a job, don’t buy a car, don’t buy a house, don’t travel, don’t drink, don’t have kids, plow money into Vanguard funds, spend what’s left on books”, picking stocks is for lunatics like my dad
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
lol caek
I bought that powerbook in probably 2001/2002, let me go take a peek at the stock price
oh sweet I'd have $200K
― mh, Friday, 3 August 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
― calstars, Friday, 3 August 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
roffle
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 August 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
realizing this is generally true (along with rumblings of the 2008 crisis, which i knew enough to know i didn't understand) is why i sold my 20 apple shares.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 3 August 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
If every apple product you ever bought included one share of apple stock, do you think they would end up paying for themselves?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 3 August 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
don’t drink,otm and go fuck yourself, you're fired
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 3 August 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
I still get 1.5%
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 3 August 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
I mean this sort of retrospective speculation is totally worthless not only because of counterfactuals but like if you or anyone spent $2k on a laptop 15 years ago it wasn’t like an investment in Apple was what you were choosing between. I could’ve saved/invested even more money instead of buying a piano but you can’t play money. You may be able to get wasted on money though.
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 3 August 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
it's a hell of a drug iirc
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Friday, 3 August 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry-steve-jobs-daughter
― éľś, Saturday, 4 August 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
God what a fucking asshole.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 August 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
that excerpt is really well-written, i'll have to pick up her memoir
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 4 August 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
Jobs was such a monumental dickhead.
― DJI, Saturday, 4 August 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
Out of all of them, The Man And The Machine documentary is the one that's the most accurate. Fearsome cult-leader asshole.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 4 August 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link