I kept looking for a quit/skip/later option, couldn't find one.
You can just hit cmd-Q there and it'll ask you if you want to quit.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
Oh god the magic cmd-Q option. Brilliant. Nice of them to make that obvious to the user.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, there should be more options and UI elements in the first boot experience.
― caek, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
Not HATE APPLE but fuck it. If you buy Office for Mac 2011 Home & Student (1 user) you can't just pay the small difference to upgrade to the 3 user edition, you have to buy the whole fucking thing all over again. Cunce.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
My wife's MBA arrived today. She only took it out of the box because I kept hassling her. Her only opinion so far is that she hates how much the W key looks like an upside-down M.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:32 (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
IMPORTANT UPDATE: absolutely nothing has happened since
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
I'll give you a hundred bucks for it.
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
$105, and I'll write you a fawning thank you note
― remy bean, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
When I installed the Office update I had to ask her three times just to enter her password. She was just sitting there. She wasn't doing anything. The Macbook was on her lap and I still had to ask her three times. I want a divorce.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
women!
― max, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
Next time she tries to check Facebook on the disintegrating old Ubuntu box and Unity crashes and she's all "waaah it's not woooorking can yoooou fix it" I will set fire to all her shoes.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
$108.47 and a gift card to Payless Shoes that probably still has a few bucks on it
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
sounds like he'd rather have you take his wife....outdoors!!
― forced to change display name (gbx), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
haaa
― the tax avocado (DJP), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
in russia wife types password.
― jed_, Thursday, 22 September 2011 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
This happened. In 45 minutes she went from "it's too thin" to "wow it's so thin".
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
She stays indoors all the time, she probably has trouble recognizing proper levels of thin?
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
wheres my iphone5?
― I just got back from a dream attack (sunny successor), Friday, 23 September 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
Lion. 2010 MBP battery life continues to be fucking disgusting and I could fry an egg on the base. Firefox (Flash?) and Reeder keep forcing it into discrete graphics mode for some reason.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 20 October 2011 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
don't use firefox!
― caek, Thursday, 20 October 2011 09:27 (twelve years ago) link
If I close absolutely everything I get 10 hours. Ideally then I can't blame Lion BUT this never ever happened on 10.6.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 20 October 2011 09:52 (twelve years ago) link
10 hours is.... quite a lot?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2011 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
... amazin?
― stet, Thursday, 20 October 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
Yes but I was getting 3–4 with stuff open.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 20 October 2011 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
I barely got 3 from my first MacBook w/nothing open.
― stet, Thursday, 20 October 2011 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
seriously!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 October 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I seriously wouldn't be complaining about 3-4 hours of battery on a MBP! But agreed that Firefox has become a useless piece of crap since the upgrade. I've been using Safari more these days because it's more usable, but I still don't like it very much. (For example I click on the drop-down bookmark folders in the bar and it sometimes takes three or four clicks to activate them.)
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 20 October 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
chrome is really the shit these days
― Clay, Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
i hate that it doesn't do password auto-complete, though. You have to type in the username and *then* it adds the passwords. I'm always forgetting my usernames, so I prefer it just to fill as soon as the form laods.
― stet, Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
3-4 with 6 or 7 applications open is all ive ever gotten from my mac laptops
― max, Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
chrome does p'word autocomplete for me! on some sites, at least... some times i wont remember the pword no matter what. but yeah chrome is the best--less of a memory hog than safari, plus greater customizability
― max, Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes it* wont remember the pword or username
the best advantage safari has is the address bar autocomplete
― max, Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
oh, I wonder if this is sites where I have stored multiple passwords? Safari always chooses one in that case.
― stet, Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
i dont really hate apple but i have my first date with the genius bar saturday afternoon because new 4s is stuck on the apple logo
― I just got back from a dream attack (sunny successor), Thursday, 20 October 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
AA, I used to get 5-6 hours under normal work, 8-10 just playing music with the screen off on my 2010 MBP. now it's 2011 and i get 3-4. i haven't upgraded to lion (because lol it is a pointless upgrade). that's pretty normal deterioration of battery life. are you sure this is was new with lion and not just because your mbp battery is now > 1 year old?
― caek, Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
lion is awesome fuiud
it's worth it for the sandboxed security model alone
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Thursday, 20 October 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
are you sure this is was new with lion and not just because your mbp battery is now > 1 year old?
Yeah, it dropped like a stone the day I installed Lion and never came back. I don't use the battery enough for it to have deteriorated that quickly over 15 months.
I'm only sticking with Firefox for a couple of plugins that don't have proper Chrome equivalents.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 20 October 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Lithium Ion Batteries age irrespective of how often you discharge them, in fact it is worse to keep them fully charged than at ~40% state of charge than full if they are not cycled.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 20 October 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
You should run them all the way dead a couple times a month.
Really, it sounds to me like one of the cells in your battery died around the same time you installed Lion.
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Thursday, 20 October 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
and I could fry an egg on the base
also my iphone-ipad tethering is fucked in ios5, but I'll give them a chance to fix that
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 20 October 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
maybe it wasn't lion, but re: how often you use your battery, as ed says, batteries do not work that way.
― caek, Thursday, 20 October 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
sigh
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 20 October 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
forget it
Buckled, ditched Firefuck for Chrome, installed ScriptNo + AdBlock Element Hiding Helper, closed Reeder, now reliably getting 5–7 hrs battery. Sliding between full-screen apps still hits the battery but it's better than the shit I was getting before.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 October 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
I am guessing that I am somewhere between three and six days away from the birth of a long-lasting anti-Mozilla tirade
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 October 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
I've installed Chrome for everyone in our office. It's the only browser worth using on OSX right now.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 21 October 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
There are minor niggles but the trade-off is 40% less battery time so
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 October 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
It's the only browser worth using on OSX right now.
as a recent convert to opera, might i suggest
― ∞th-wave ska (diamonddave85), Friday, 21 October 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
developing on a ipad http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-for-an-ipad
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 3 November 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds a lot like he's just using the ipad as a monitor - all the work is being done on the remote server.
― koogs, Friday, 4 November 2011 13:59 (twelve years ago) link