The watchOS 6.1.3 update includes important bug fixes, addressing an issue that could prevent the irregular heart rhythm notification feature from working properly for Apple Watch owners in Iceland.
ok, I know this was probably related to government healthcare regulations and in what countries they're allowed to report specific metrics to users but I'm choosing to misread this as "we had a software bug where we can't analyze the heart rate of Icelandic people"
― mh, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
'big time irregularity' (1993, one little indian/elektra)
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
nice one
― mh, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.cultofmac.com/685669/larry-tesler-the-apple-employee-who-invented-cut-copy-paste-dies-at-74/
:(
― mark s, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
Did they try hitting Ctrl Z on him?
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
Star Wars director confirms Apple won't let movie bad guys use iPhones
https://www.techspot.com/news/84163-star-wars-director-confirms-apple-wont-movie-bad.html
― Alba, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
Ironically, iPhones are often the preferred phone of choice for real-world criminals, usually because of Apple’s refusal to unlock them for the FBI and authorities.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link
anyone who loves civil liberties and end-to-end encryption, I’m in for
― mh, Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
uhhh I mean other than the bad people. good in theory, can enable bad things, but only as a bad side effect
― mh, Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:22 (four years ago) link
oh please they'd kill to have Vader shown with an iPhone
― maffew12, Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link
I hate that they removed the automatic magnifier function when you are editing text.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
Me too, but I am slowly coming around to the hovering-insertion-point. Not in Messages though, as soon as you try to do that the message scoots to the bottom of the screen and you can't place the cursor in it without bringing up the keyboard, rinse-repeat-AARGH.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 27 February 2020 01:55 (four years ago) link
jed_ otm, it’s bullshit
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 February 2020 02:07 (four years ago) link
iOS 13 has entirely fucked up autocorrect as well. I mistyped the word "liked" and it had been corrected to "lujj oh ee" wtf? A couple of times I've sent a message before checking and got some very confused - what on earth does that mean? type replies whereas before people would be fairly able to decipher an accidental autocorrect now it just replaces the mistyped word with bullshit. I'd do anything to go back to 12.
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Saturday, 7 March 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
it even autocorrects words you’re finished with! like it’ll autocorrect two at a time
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 7 March 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
Consider using SwiftKey
― willem, Saturday, 7 March 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
yeah i should. i used Gboard for awhile until i ejected Google from my life.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 7 March 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
SwiftKey is good
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Saturday, 7 March 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link
I've set up my laptop with my clicky keyboard and shitty monitor at my desk at home so I can work from home effectively and man oh man is typing on a real goddamn keyboard at a desk infinitely preferable to smartphones or what
― college bong rip guy (silby), Saturday, 7 March 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
I don’t know, I nearly posted something about the ‘Australian Health Monster’ which is technically correct.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 8 March 2020 06:28 (four years ago) link
just cracked my 6s screen yet again. what do i do next, buy another used 6s? or is it time to move on? i can't tell you how much the 3.55mm headphone jack thing makes me fear a newer model. i've already burned through 3 or 4 different SEs and 6s over the past few years, each w/ its own screen replacement or two. the batteries always suck too. most of all though i miss the size of the 5/SE, that was the best. all the others just slip out of my small hand too easily
― marcos, Thursday, 12 March 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
I feared the missing headphone jack so much and used the shitty apple phones fore a few months before I bought a pair of $50 wireless earbuds and it's been honestly life changing - I didn't realize how much having a cord sucked until it was gone.
Granted 99% of my phone listening is podcasts when walking the dog or whatever so not 'serious' listening.
― joygoat, Thursday, 12 March 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
Getting a headphone “dongle” is pretty painless. I was also apprehensive but it’s really no big deal tbh
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 12 March 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
I had decent results with Lightning-to-3.5mm adapters but then I got a pair of Sennheiser bluetooth headphones and now use those all the time
― Brad C., Thursday, 12 March 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
ok you have reassured me
― marcos, Thursday, 12 March 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
You have to get one of those pop socket things otherwise anything bigger than a 6s is unusable imo
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 12 March 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
joygoat what earbuds did you get
― marcos, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
I got these based on a wirecutter review as they were the cheap favorite: https://www.amazon.com/Skullcandy-Sesh-True-Wireless-Earbud/dp/B07VPX4W35/
Also pondered these based on consumer reports but the ones above were $10 cheaper that day: https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Signature-Bluetooth-Earbuds-Charging/dp/B07HGL3J31/
― joygoat, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
What’s the best/most trustworthy place to buy a used iPhone? I know that q has been answered before but I think it’s in the fold of this thread I can’t fully open. I’m in the US and my ancient beloved 6 is dying at the worst possible time.
― jack (unobtrusive ambient poll participant), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
swappa was what they said
― j., Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:58 (four years ago) link
Thanks j., looks good
― jack (unobtrusive ambient poll participant), Thursday, 26 March 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
still getting eat-everything issues with backblaze :(
ALSO: my macbook just (like an hour ago) started switching off when i remove the charger lead. plugged in again it starts up fine and says the battery is at 100%. unplugged it goes straight off again.
battery information has it's 100% charged but "charging: no" -- does this just mean it isn't charging because it's fully charged or is something else wrong?
― mark s, Thursday, 26 March 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
I'd check this out
― absolute idiot liar uneducated person (mh), Thursday, 26 March 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
ah cool thank you
― mark s, Thursday, 26 March 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
Apple buys the Dark Sky weather app - the one that gives you a forecast for the exact place you are - and announces Android app shutting down and third-party APIs to be cut off.
― Lee626, Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:03 (four years ago) link
The Our Incredible Journey Era of acquihires has mostly wound down it seems like, that’s the highest profile one I’ve heard about in some time
― silby, Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link
it’ll be interesting because dark sky had some aggregation in their api and I was curious how well it was doing in that regard. I’ve actually dealt with weather data providers and it’s such a crap shoot, because predicted and actual aren’t a straight versus relationship, and the theory is the former is related to the latter in the long term but it’s all machine learning and crunching
― mh, Thursday, 2 April 2020 03:59 (four years ago) link
I need to replace the battery in my iPhone 7. Do I go the DIY route via ifixit or send it back to Apple? I’m concerned about the quality of the replacement battery that ifixit will send vs what Apple has.
― calstars, Friday, 10 April 2020 11:32 (four years ago) link
laptop still immediately switches off when i unplug from the kitchen socket, but not when i unplug it from the sitting room socket -- i guess the north-facing electricity is a bit spunkier
― mark s, Friday, 10 April 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
Battery replacement on iPhone not too difficult. I did it via ifixit on two 5s without trouble
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 10 April 2020 12:01 (four years ago) link
Not sure they’re great batteries either but they do the trick for my kids who don’t have “”””mission critical “”””” phone needs
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 10 April 2020 12:02 (four years ago) link
my iphone keeps on autocorrecting dip to dup. this only the latest in a series of wacky autocorrects including something to do when “drinking” got changed to de-iced and then i tried to write de-iced it kept changing it to... well something else. it’s gone off the rails.
― Fizzles, Friday, 10 April 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 10 April 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
Thx
― calstars, Friday, 10 April 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
The phones after the 6 have the screen glued on, so beware! I did a few 5s and 4s with no issues (although it's always a little sketchy with all the tiny screws and adhesive), and then shattered my kid's 6s screen. You either need some kind of hot plate, or just (as I did) take the frickin thing to the mall and pay a guy $60 to do it. Of course mall trips aren't an option right now, so maybe just find a hot plate or hair dryer and be careful.
― DJI, Friday, 10 April 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
I know this is old news but I'm usually shielded from the horror of the butterfly keys by using an external keyboard. JESUS, it's an unpleasant experience, at least for a bad multi-fingered but not touch-typing user like me. I've abandoned my word Macbook Air for this old scissor-keyed one just because I literally cannot work on the other. I've realised that it might not be so much the keys themselves as how close together they are. I'm hoping that the new ones are spaced as nicely as the old keyboards as well as having more movement.
― Alba, Friday, 10 April 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
aye their pish. what's even worse is if you don't keep your keyboard meticulously clean the keys are prone to breaking (or at least becoming semi-useless) readily.
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Friday, 10 April 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
they're*
ok so i've reset the SMC a couple of times i *think* and this "turning off when i unplug it" is still happening
plus last night with my crappy old frayed lead it didn't recharge at all overnight, so i switched to my good lead (there is a reason i was using the crappy lead not the good lead but it's not worth explaining) and it charged up… nearly. it stopped at 95%.
it still goes off when i unplug it. shd i (a) let the battery go to 0% and wait for five+ hours and then recharge -- something i read suggested this (b) shd i try restting the SMC again
it's a 2013 macbook air upgraded to catalina 10.15.3, it's slow and cranky sometimes when i'm doing a lot on it but not usually especially buggy -- this is worrying me a bit bcz if i need a new battery this seems like a bad time to have to take it in somewhere
― mark s, Saturday, 11 April 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
Sounds like a battery issue. Replace that sh1t
― calstars, Saturday, 11 April 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link