I HATE APPLE

for real though, Disney needs to start making electronics so we can have a slugfest between them, Apple, Amazon, and AT&T

(That is not what I want and is a hell scenario)

btw the news+ thing appears to be the app Texture that they bought resurfacing as a tab in the news app

AppazonT&D. Calling it.

Only Apple could come up with something as innovative and gamechanging as “human-curated news”. Can’t believe no one ever thought of that before tbh.

otm, until now all my news had been curated by hula hoops

got the chipmunks christmas song in my head now

still am embarrassing keynote though.

Everyone needs to just stop buying all shit in general.

Easy for you to say but what am I supposed to put in my house if I stop buying shit

You can fill your house with deafening emptiness.

xpost You buy a bunch of metal bowls. You can eat out of them, cook over a fire with them, make the fire in them, turn them upside down to sit on, watch water swirl in them...

so is the headphone jack coming back, yes or no

You can fill your house with deafening emptiness.

― nathom, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:23 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sounds familiar!

https://i.imgur.com/ohMI8vG.jpg

(but he's playing records!)

I bet they're just out for show.

Is that 'Aja' in front of him?

it is not

xpost You buy a bunch of metal bowls. You can eat out of them, cook over a fire with them, make the fire in them, turn them upside down to sit on, watch water swirl in them...

― Yerac, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 1:26 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What is wrong with me that 4/5ths of this seem like perfectly reasonable advice? Like I have multiple times told my boyfriend, "You should just use that one metal bowl for everything."

Yerac is only ever reasonable

otm

trying to figure out which 1/5 you weren't down with

I am guessing the water swirling. Replace with- fill bowl with water and put in sm/med houseplants when you are away for weeks/a month. The houseplants rewater themselves through the holes in the bottom of the plant pot.

water swirling... that's entertainment sorted though. Not sure with all this activity there will be much time for sitting around. I feel sitting is out.

I dunno, I have sat on many upside down metal bowls.

you would

My boot camp partition’s WiFi download speeds are 33% faster than in Mac OS. Wtf?

you've got it sat on a metal bowl, don't you?

s3 apple watch battery life has been disgusting since last update

disgusting bad? as opposed to like, a disgusting dunk?

used to be at 75% by the end of the day, now it's closer to 45%

at one (1) year old, my current phone started lasting 2 hours outside

s3 apple watch battery life has been disgusting since last update

― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, April 4, 2019 7:00 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe i'm thinking of someone else, but i feel like you post this about every piece of apple hardware you own after every OS update.

is there a better time to post about them

ya got a bum watch

you’re holding it wrong

Are you trying to sync unchecked songs to your watch

do you try to talk into it regularly?

Apple Music is so needlessly complicated - liking/adding to library requires the weird hold and swipe movements instead of being simple buttons, you can't sub to radio shows and when I'm listening to a radio show in my car, when I get back in the next time it's defaulted to shuffling the library and I've lost my place in the radio show.

it's just awful, and yet https://pitchfork.com/news/apple-music-now-has-more-paid-us-subscribers-than-spotify-report/. who are these people? i've never met one afaik.

I have apple music, it integrates well with my iTunes library, have no complaints about selection or whatever, sorta serves as a music backup with iTunes match. the only people I know who use spotify are on ilx.

I've bounced between Apple Music and Tidal out of some Spotify-avoidance for the last year. Apple Music had six free months from my Verizon plan so I'm currently on that.

I think Spotify's tech-wise the best, Tidal's exclusive content and some of the new album recommendations have been good, and Apple Music is kind of a muddle. The radio/special content seems middling and targeted at an audience that's not me, and the searching sucks. I feel like it makes the experience of having my library available (I've used iTunes Match) actually worse because there's not a clean delineation and purging Apple Music-only content from my library when I drop the subscription (as opposed to getting the "please resubscribe to view this") is necessary and also messy.

Probably going to Spotify after this

not sure what milo's talking about -- on a listing screen you can do the push-to-add stuff, but if you're on an album on AM you just click "Add +" and then it switches to the "download" icon if you want it on your current device

I use Apple Music because way back when Spotify had two tiers of paid plan, which made me annoyed and unwilling to subscribe, and then Beats Music came along so I gave that a shot, and then stuck with Apple Music after Beats got acquired (remember that lol)

xp - if you search for something you can do that but if it comes up on a playlist you have to lightly hold and swipe up then hit the heart or plus or whatever.

Every now and again Apple Music really just the spot with its new music playlist, I had a really good run of interesting jazz in last week’s. On the other hand apple’s rather broad definition of folk tends to land me with a lot of sub-Eoin McLove and Celtic moods type drivel which makes me think they think I’m a Missouri housewife trying to get in touch with her ‘Irish roots’

Isn't there an apple music vs Spotify thread that would be a better home for recent posts itt?

no

thinking of becoming one of those people who quits all my apps

“I force-quit your app every time I get out of it and for some reason that’s causing issues”. Surprise! pic.twitter.com/14PiCvynlw

— Guilherme Rambo (@_inside) April 21, 2019

it's a fresh start

like a juice cleanse

Had the weirdest thing happening with my Pandora app and battery drain. Noticed yesterday that my iPhone 7 was draining much faster than usual, went into the Battery settings and found out that Pandora had been running for over 7 hours each day for the past 4 days, in the background.

Thing is, I can't even remember the last time I opened that app. It has probably been more than six months. Checked the app settings and background app refresh was turned off for it. So I have no idea why it suddenly started running.

Googling was inconclusive, but I did see some comments about some music apps starting up automatically when you switch from WiFi to Bluetooth.

Ended up deleting the app since I never use it, but hadn't encountered something like that before. It never showed up on my lock screen or anything, so I never would have noticed that it was mysteriously running if I hadn't caught the battery drain.