very happy arq user here, but it's extremely fiddly to set up (and potentially expensive) if you're not already familiar with cloud services.
https://www.arqbackup.com/arqcloudbackup/ looks like an extremely nice simple alternative built on the same backup protocol, but with the backend bit taken care of. $6/month all in.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 26 October 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
posting on I HATE APPLE because it is 10-20x faster for me to recover a file via arq (from google nearline storage in my case, which is cheap because it's slow), than it is to recover it from time machine on a disk connected to my machine by a USB cable.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 26 October 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
siri on the watch is totally fucked. if it fires at all, which is like a third of the time, it sits there saying “hold on…” for several minutes
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 28 October 2018 10:26 (five years ago) link
generally speaking Siri is just not good. Apple are way behind Amazon and Google on this digital assistant thing (I hate all of them frankly but my son uses a google home for stuff and it's impressive, where if you ask siri the same things she doesn't know what the fuck you're talking about)
― akm, Sunday, 28 October 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
Just picked up an Xr and it’s pretty nice. Sweet spot between the too large max and Xs, which seemed too narrow somehow. The xr brings a bit of width. Also the red color is very cool looking!
― calstars, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
all of the currently available iPhones are too large
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
need an XE
― ||||||||, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
I got an XS Max when they came out. Picked up my kid's SE the other day, and felt wistful for a phone that doesn't pull my pants down when I put in my pocket.
― DJI, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
got the xs max and tbf i wish it was bigger
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
all of the currently available iPhones are too large2024: “we listened! new iphone se-r, starting at us$1900”
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link
SE 4 lyfe
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 10:46 (five years ago) link
when even goldman sachs is saying "slow down, you are fucking everything up by being too grabby" it seems like a real sign https://t.co/qzaPAkbgCo— Casey Johnston (@caseyjohnston) November 20, 2018
― stet, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
Even Fraser Speirs has a Pixel now
― stet, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
That is wild.If the rumors are true, the "Pixel Lite" will be amazing. Plastic back, 64GB, headphone jack ...
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
…14 significant problems, 3 of which are hardware…
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
There’s really no fucking way to be actually sure the alarm on an iPhone will make sound when it goes off in the morning is there? I had two incidents over the course of about a year which I convinced myself were my error somehow but now there have been two in the last week where I definitely had all the settings correct. Fucking thing just went off silently for two hours before natural light woke me. Luckily I’m only late for thanksgiving and not my job.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 22 November 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
You've got the right 'change with buttons' option in Setttings>Sounds, yes? I've been caught out before with that making the alarm quiet when I've turned the volume down for other reasons. https://i.imgur.com/DoOXqNY.png
― Alba, Thursday, 22 November 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
https://static.scientificamerican.com/blogs/assets/roots-of-unity/File/3823683431_6fd4418996_z.jpg
― mick signals, Thursday, 22 November 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
This fscking device has 3 gigs of RAM and can’t remember my place in a 20k rich text document.
― calstars, Sunday, 13 January 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
F notes
― calstars, Sunday, 13 January 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
oooh boy this is a bad one
https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/28/facetime-bug-hear-audio/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
yep shut off FT last night on mine
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
https://1eu.funnyjunk.com/pictures/Defiant+flaky+future+donkey_7a1e5f_6935584.jpg
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link
if only there was some way to tether your earpods to your phone, perhaps via some kind of wire
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
there isn't, with new apple phones, is the problem
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
lightning adapter though
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:42 (five years ago) link
that is far more bulky and inconvenient than a square of medical tape though
also it's one of the worst ux decisions in the history of man
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link
yes but it’s possible, and apple even gave you a free one (until last year when their greed eclipsed the sun)
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:08 (five years ago) link
are you on BG’s side or Mr Tape Ear though
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:13 (five years ago) link
Mr Tape Ear Did Nothing Wrong
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:27 (five years ago) link
it's a good look!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:32 (five years ago) link
wireless earpods stuck down with tape - a good lookwireless earpods - a bad look
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:34 (five years ago) link
are you on BG’s side or Mr Tape Ear thoughmr tape ear 100%
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:39 (five years ago) link
Hate the cheesiness of the wireless sh1t but it’s super nice functionally
― calstars, Thursday, 7 February 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link
what a fragile piece of garbage this macbook pro is
just a few months after they replaced (under apple care) everything except the logic board and SSD because of a cracking flex cable in the monitor hinge, the touch ID reader stops working
i had better sell this stupid thing before the apple care is up, huh
― the late great, Friday, 8 February 2019 06:49 (five years ago) link
just a horrible computer. still hate mine but im stuck w it.not one singular improvement over my old 2015 one that i can name.
― marcos smart (Spottie), Friday, 8 February 2019 06:53 (five years ago) link
agree
― the late great, Friday, 8 February 2019 06:58 (five years ago) link
i still use my 2015 one for music and it works amazing. equally fast at processing large audio files. just needs a new battery and maybe some compressed air ...
― the late great, Friday, 8 February 2019 07:02 (five years ago) link
the touch bar is the dumbest thing apples ever done.
― marcos smart (Spottie), Friday, 8 February 2019 07:04 (five years ago) link
yeah i fuck up constantly by accidentally tapping it
it sure is convenient for grabbing emoji though!
― the late great, Friday, 8 February 2019 07:05 (five years ago) link
is the dell infinity edge display any good? it has a terrible name
i just disabled it so it only shows what was on the old one and added spacers to the edges where I kept hitting it accidentally.
― marcos smart (Spottie), Friday, 8 February 2019 07:07 (five years ago) link
im sure other computers are fine but im an apple guy for life despite my hate for this version.
every time i open Messages now my volume goes down to 50%! when i leave Messages it goes back up!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 March 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
that's so no one can overhear your messages
― j., Friday, 1 March 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
checks out
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 March 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
my biggest annoyance with ios at the moment is the way it reverts to the music app constantly - eg i'm listening to a podcast, switch over to a youtube video or something and watch that to the end, then click the play button on my headphones again and instead of going back to where i left off in the podcast the music app fires up and starts playing the into to blur's 'girls and boys'
it didn't used to do this until a few ios revisions ago and it still drives me fucking nuts
― Backdoor Pathway To Making Human Penis Started With A Wallaby (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 March 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
in other news i got an 11" ipad pro and a pencil for photo-editing / drawing and it fkn rules
it's also just amazing for reading comics and i'm already guilty with the knowledge that it's gonna spend at least as much time showing me marvel unlimited as it does lightroom or procreate
― Backdoor Pathway To Making Human Penis Started With A Wallaby (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 March 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
too positivethe lust object thread is thataway
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 March 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
you're right, i am shamed
― Backdoor Pathway To Making Human Penis Started With A Wallaby (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 March 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link