I think that was the moment that made me realize headphones not only play you music but also tell ppl not to bug you, like who on earth wd ever be like "oh, a dude w/ hearing aids, he must be listening to music with his phone w/ the mic turned off, I better not try to talk to him"
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:37 (eight years ago) link
wear earmuffs everywhere over your hearing aids
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:59 (eight years ago) link
! Wow that's incredible Stevie. I had no idea such a thing existed.
Have you thought of gutting Apple earbuds and fashioning a way to hook them onto your hearing aids for when you don't want to be bothered?
― Je55e, Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
maybe some chewing gum or Scotch tape
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 1 June 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
maybe just remove the hearing aids and listen to music and ignore people forever
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 June 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
yeah but when I do it w/ the hearing aids it offsets the profound low-tone hearing loss
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 1 June 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
like "wow so this is what bass sounds like"
Oh great, hard drive recall.https://www.apple.com/support/imac-harddrive-3tb/(taking mine to the Memphis apple store on Monday)
― it's not arugula science (WilliamC), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
Every time I have to set up a new Mac I remember how horrible and annoying this company has become. So much useless bloatware shit to turn off - bluetooth handoff, iMessages, clear off 99% of the dock, 'natural' scrolling (there's nothing natural about reversing the way EVERYONE WHO'S USED A COMPUTER HAS LEARNED HOW TO SCROLL), no HD/etc. icons on desktop, no apps folder in dock on default so you can use their launcher bullshit, default security will only let you install from the App Store.
I started using Macs in 2001 because Windows was constantly in the way (more true than ever in Win8) but I'm wondering if maybe Win10 might actually be less of a PITA.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 24 July 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
lol I like all those things except for a couple icons in the dock
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 24 July 2015 15:32 (eight years ago) link
Going back to 10.4 or something would probably look ugly as hell with the fake brushed metal and depth but I remember it as being a much better user experience.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 24 July 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link
Nah, 10.4 looks and is amazing. 10.6 with 10.7's UI might have been the sweet spot; all downhill from there
― stet, Friday, 24 July 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
San Francisco font will help in the next iter imo
I totally leave natural scrolling on
― go hang a salami I'm a canal, adam (silby), Friday, 24 July 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
10.11 is vastly better than 10.10, that's true. It's like a different thing entirely
― stet, Friday, 24 July 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
seriously everything in milo's list is good and works well for almost all people. i mean by all means turn them off/revert them if you want, but they are good defaults.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 July 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
Everything should be opt-in at all times - do you want your iPad to ring alongside your phone? Do you want messages on three devices sitting within 16 inches of each other?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 24 July 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
everything should be opt in at all times?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 July 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
yes and yes i have those settings on.
should the gui be opt-in? terminal is better imo.
i mean there are 1000s of legit complaints that fall under "apple isn't what it used to be", but choice of defaults is not one of them.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 July 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
the ipad imessage thingy is opt-in, I reconfigured some stuff and wondered why my iPad wasn't getting texts
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 24 July 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
ipad imessage is enabled by default on a new ipad isn't it?
i think ipad sms message is enabled by default tbh
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 July 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
ah might just be since stuff reset when I swapped sim cards
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 24 July 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
Feeling a lot of these frustations. iMessage in particular. Nothing more frustrating than finding text messages you never got on your phone on your computer for some reason and wondering how many other messages you missed
― Evan R, Friday, 24 July 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
It's not 'choice of defaults,' it's that everything added to OS X since 2007 or so has been deeper control on Apple's part of your user experience. Because we have an ecosystem we need to push it on you as aggressively as possible.
not even complaining about iTunes, that shit is just beyond repair now.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 24 July 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
right but your list was a list of defaults you disagreed with
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 July 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
"apple used to be so chill, just let the user get on with it"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 July 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link
you can't tweet what you're listening to in apple music unless it's available in apple's cloud, which seems dickish
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 July 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
Xp - defaults that force me into the overbearing and interfering Apple ecosystem.
I didn't say Apple sucks because the default folder view is icon style instead of lists.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 24 July 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
"force"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 July 2015 18:46 (eight years ago) link
i very sincerely love natural scrolling
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Saturday, 25 July 2015 14:33 (eight years ago) link
lol I was just abt to post how I too <3 natural scrolling and have reversed the scroll on my Win 7 laptop to mimic it
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
natural scrolling is good
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
it matches the scrolling on the computers most people use most of the time (aka phones)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
is natural scrolling that mouse wheel up = scroll down business? that can go to hell. i have to use a third-party program Scroll Reverser to fix that. you can't treat mouse wheels the same way you do for trackpads and touch screens.
― Nhex, Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link
drake the type of guy to use a mouse with a scroll wheel
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
But is opposite of the previous 10 years of trackpad / 20 years of mouse experience I've had and therefore so much more maddening than other Apple defaults that I change right away.
― joygoat, Saturday, 25 July 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link
it seemed "natural" to me about 2 minutes after installing whatever os turned that on
also
INVERTED 4 LIFE
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 25 July 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
Take it to the gay thread.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 26 July 2015 00:54 (eight years ago) link
My house is all-natural.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 26 July 2015 01:32 (eight years ago) link
I have done likewise with my work computer
bros
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, 26 July 2015 02:03 (eight years ago) link
natural is the best, especially on touch pads
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 26 July 2015 02:29 (eight years ago) link
milo otm.
no, apple doesn't "force" you into its defaults. it just sets everything up in this jagged maze of checked/unchecked's that might soothe grandma wondering where were her earthlink account went, but frustrates nearly everyone else in some fashion.
― pplains, Monday, 27 July 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
i use a mouse with a scroll wheel at work and a TRACKBALL at the house.
― pplains, Monday, 27 July 2015 14:16 (eight years ago) link
you've all inspired me to finally go with "natural"
i had been holding out til i got a mac for my work computer but that's never going happen and i dunno why i never realized i could just reverse it myself :/
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Monday, 27 July 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
on my windows 7 work pc i mean
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Monday, 27 July 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link
the thing that got me to switch was my ex having a mac and me using his computer all the time and it was such a pain switching back and forth btwn mine and his, couldn't even bear
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 02:02 (eight years ago) link
Why are third-party keyboards so buggy on iOS? I thought at first it was the apps' fault, but they're all as bad as each other (and apparently fine on Android) so I'm assuming it's Apple's fault. They've had long enough to fix it now.
― Alba, Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
otm, i had to give up on all third-party keyboards because of this
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
The hardware is still great, but they're really losing ground on the software side. Maybe trying to do too much. Maps, music, email, and the browser are all inferior. And maybe it doesn't even matter as long as they can keep putting out new devices.
― calstars, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 00:30 (eight years ago) link