Not that this is news but
Me: Hey Apple, three movies I bought disappeared from my iTunes library.Apple: Oh yes, those are not available anymore. Thank you for buying them. Here are two movie rentals on us!Me: Wait... WHAT?? @tim_cook when did this become acceptable? pic.twitter.com/dHJ0wMSQH9— Anders G da Silva (@drandersgs) September 10, 2018
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
xp gbx, I'm pretty sure carriers like Verizon are required to take returns for 14 days.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
For real? I'm gonna have to look into this
― gbx, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
Folks, stuff disappears from iTunes, etc. all the time for any reason you can think of. For example, a band I was in pulled everything offline because we got into a dumb fight - no strategy about leasing, non-ownership, etc. just old fashioned creative differences.
I know I keep shouting about this, but back *everything* up. Make a copy of it and put it in a different place for when your house eventually burns down or floods out.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
Sure, good advice, but even better would be if apple stopped saying "buy" or "purchase" for media that was really just being rented.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
the built-in weather app's watch complication is fundamentally broken, and the best advice i can find is to factory reset the whole watch. utterly fucked.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
somehow checking 'show apple music' in iTunes wiped out a year's worth of "loved" settings on the songs in my library. oh boy
― calstars, Thursday, 13 September 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
for a three year old service that is appalling
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 September 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
No more model for sale with a headphone jack, so I guess the 6s is my last iphone, unless I decide it's worth it to spring for a nice lightning DAC and to deal with the bulk (their adapter sucks).
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 13 September 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
There were rumors last week that this newest jumbo iphone would be able to run iPad apps - anyone know if that’s so?(A lot of the most powerful music-making apps are iPad only)
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 13 September 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link
Trying to back up all the photos from my wife's iphone has reminded me how unbelievably infuriatingly stupid and hateful the entire process is. I don't know what's on the phone, what's in the cloud, can't easily get shit off of the cloud, there are tons of places where it feels like one wrong click or ambiguous choice will delete all of the photos on icloud. Fuck apple and this whole user hostile pile of shit
― Dan I., Thursday, 13 September 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
whew okay just had to get that out
― Dan I., Thursday, 13 September 2018 02:49 (five years ago) link
It’s legit, everything about dealing with photos just sucks
― gordon cartyard (alomar lines), Thursday, 13 September 2018 03:42 (five years ago) link
What I've found helpful for figuring out what is/isn't in the cloud is to create a smart album in Photos with the following one-line property:
Match the following condition: Photo - is - unable to upload to iCloud Photo Library
that album will contain everything that's on your phone and not on the cloud. It's saved me tremendous headache.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 September 2018 07:36 (five years ago) link
I’m still irrationally Cloud-resistant. All my photos are in my Phone and, every few months, I’ll connect to my Mac, open Lightroom and import everything “new” it sees on the attached device. Then I filter by metadata in Lightroom and junk anything that’s just something I took with a proper camera and moved to the phone (I.e., photos which exist elsewhere in the catalog). Then I’ll gradually wipe out chunks of the Camera Roll chronologically until I have enough space for a few more months. I run iTunes backups too but the one and only time I did this to the Cloud (for my elder daughter’s 4s) I couldn’t restore it to her new 5s. So sod that.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 13 September 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link
can't easily get shit off of the cloudor a blanket
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 13 September 2018 07:59 (five years ago) link
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/12/apple_film_rights/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 September 2018 08:29 (five years ago) link
Last week, I accidentally turned off iCLoud in Photos on Mac. When I turned it back on all my photos since July had disappeared from the library (although they still appear on my phone) and Photos on Mac now tells me it's supposedly uploading 70 GB worth of pictures (at a snail pace from what I can tell).
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 13 September 2018 09:13 (five years ago) link
How do you do this? I can't figure it out on my phone. Do you mean in Photos for Mac? If so, how can it see photos that are by definition only on the phone?
― stet, Thursday, 13 September 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
I do roughly what Michael does too. I've no idea how using photos in the cloud would work when you've got shedloads of them (I'm not paying any more monthly subscriptions, thanks very much)
― Alba, Thursday, 13 September 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link
Is there no way to turn off the plug in noise on the latest Mac book pros? Gloink very damn time and then some other times for no reason at all. It doesn’t respect the volume control.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 13 September 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
Gloink!No idea sorry
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 13 September 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
what i do:
- use lightroom to organize my photos on my mac. the lightroom library on my mac is the "master" library. - photos get there from my actual camera from an SD card - they get there from my iphone using the ios dropbox app's "camera upload" feature - i do have a shared album on google photos with mah wahf. i want a copy of everything she uploads to be in my master library on my mac, so i download the whole album (as a zip, through the google photos web interface), then use a program called gemini to detect and delete duplicates (i.e. photos i uploaded), then i import what's left into lightroom. google photos could make this easier by providing "smart albums" or something, or they could make this impossible by getting rid of the "download albums" button. - 2018 am i right?!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 13 September 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, September 13, 2018 9:27 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there's a separate volume control ("alerts") for system sounds in the sounds preference pane. try that?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 13 September 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
Gloink - still there
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 13 September 2018 13:46 (five years ago) link
gloink very damn time
― j., Thursday, 13 September 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
I think I have a very similar problem to yours. Will try this
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
lol terminal does not play well with mojave dark mode
― j., Monday, 24 September 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
OS 12 is good and I hate Apple slightly less right now
that said, I now get this frequent annoying error message telling me a calendar item response did not send, and I can't get rid of it
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 24 September 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
that happened to me once but i can't remember how i dealt w/it. sorry :(
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 September 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
Damn. This is the first time in my life I can recall a new Mac OS not running on my hardware. I have a Mac Mini from 2011 that runs like greased lightning (16GB RAM + SSD) and Mojave isn't supported. I was looking forward to Dark Mode..
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
really?? you have been a very faithful upgrade then
https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/09/macos-10-14-mojave-the-ars-technica-review/4/#h5
this guy says that UI animations (like clicking on a checkbox) have been dropped from high sierra to mojave, which seems to be true (maybe because it was too much hassle to replicate them under light mode / dark mode and with all new color accents?). but i liked those!!
― j., Tuesday, 25 September 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
fucking subpixel anti-aliasing removed, WTF
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 01:46 (five years ago) link
Got a new iphone, but my backup is encrypted and I can't remember the password, and even the password in my MacBook keychain is somehow not working. Had to buy their stupid iCloud storage plan and now it's taking hours and hours to back up.
― DJI, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
fucking subpixel anti-aliasing removed, WTF― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 11:46 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 11:46 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I assume this is apple saying by a Retina Mac
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 08:19 (five years ago) link
It is - some bullshit statement from a developer about having to carry the screen pixel geometry up through multiple layers of abstraction being unworkable - except if you use a terminal command it’s right there still, for about 70% of text rendering.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 09:13 (five years ago) link
No more model for sale with a headphone jack, so I guess the 6s is my last iphone, unless I decide it's worth it to spring for a nice lightning DAC and to deal with the bulk (their adapter sucks).― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, September 12, 2018 9:38 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, September 12, 2018 9:38 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Lee626, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 11:32 (five years ago) link
Mojave is the most useless OS update yet.
― akm, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
dark mode is idiotic. who likes this shit? turned that off right away.
― akm, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
urgh having a nightmare with Photos on iOS 12 - the picture library appearing in my Photo app now seem frozen - new shots taken will not be saved to the photo library and I can't delete any older pictures
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
I don’t understand people’s fascination with dark mode either. It always looks worse to me, less readable.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
i dunno i like having a break from ALL THE LIGHTS but it's not consistent right now and there are some things like i dunno browser windows that are constantly full of non-darkened content
― j., Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
https://infinitediaries.net/os-x-choose-between-the-character-accents-popup-and-key-repeat-when-holding-down-a-key/
huh, maybe this was happening when i was running high sierra but i didn't notice it until mojave
what's the point of the key repeat rate and delay preferences if they are made to only apply to space, arrow, return keys etc?
― j., Thursday, 27 September 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Well space and return are often held down to control where text appears in e.g. a text document. And arrow keys make sense to keep going if you hold them down, whereas I can imagine that more people would like easy access to ü than wish to type uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu on the regular.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 27 September 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
To be fair most of the people who type ü on the reg are using a keyboard layout that allows them to type it more quickly than holding the key down.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 September 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
it breaks the USER EXPERIENCE of using a keyboard, for which keypress = type, key hold = tttttttttttttttttt, uh except for the modifier keys and
it seems punctuation still repeats, tho (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
look i just wanna be able to type a lotta letters in a row really fast a lot of the time okkkkkkk
― j., Thursday, 27 September 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
ök
― the late great, Friday, 28 September 2018 00:47 (five years ago) link
I never knew I needed dark mode until I was working in the studio.
Useful article on how to toggle it via keyboard: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/14/how-to-toggle-dark-mode-with-a-keyboard-shortcut-or-the-touch-bar
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 September 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
Love dark mode and it should only get better.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Friday, 28 September 2018 01:24 (five years ago) link