I HATE APPLE

Heh, just thinking about that use in Batman vs. Superman...
And even that article says you can still use the finger while it's "live" so you have a few minutes to make it work. So what if you freeze the finger? Or run an electric pulse through a disembodied hand? Though yeah probably easier to just make the person unconscious

Or just buy a phone.

in this one they used conductive inkjet rather than a photocopier: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2450100/galaxy-s6-and-honor-7-fingerprint-sensors-hacked-using-an-inkjet-printer

and there's another recent story about using playdoh but it's the daily mirror so i will spare you that.

and then there's this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34346802

"Millions of fingerprints stolen in US government hack"

the US government, man, it's STEALING YR FINGERPRINTS... #trustno1

I'm willing to accept the risk of using my fingerprint to authenticate for everything.

What about the eyeball scene in Demolition Man?

lately i have been finding my dell work computers w/ windows 7 have been way easier to use & better performing than my macbook

dell must have shipped you the magic golden computers because wow

going on 14 years of dell usage for work and still stuck on windows 7 for corporate reasons myself

iTunes update. Looks like they're finally starting to move back and make things better. First thing I notice? they got rid of the "playlists" tab. Now "my music" shows playlists if you have sidebar open, instead of that annoying thing where you had my music and playlists as two separate tabs.

nice

For the first time in years, an iTunes update feels like it actually improves something.

Seems to be opening quicker too?

i'm finding it slower but I'm finding everything slower. I need a new computer.

Clicked on some of the other tabs like Recently Added and the interface is starting to look more like Apple Music, which is fine.

So long as I can click on Songs and have all my playlists down the left side and have the browser on top iTunes essentially works exactly as it always has for me. Except for one thing. For god's sake PLEASE bring back the ability to open more than one playlist in a separate window again.

you guys are right, first time in a long time I was happy with an iTunes update. they remembered that design-wise they can reduce!

iCloud is horrible bullshit. Log in from three different devices, get three different answers on your available storage and what's taking up space. What a piece of shit excuse for a service.

Otm

some random pile of who knows what labeled "Backup" is taking up about 3 gigs of my free 5 and apparently I'm not allowed to delete it. Doesn't appear to be a backup of any devices that we have in the house. Did U2 make a movie called "Backup"?

Two month old Apple TV shit the bed overnight and requires a USB-C cable to even attempt restoration, which doesn't come with the Apple TV, or a 45 minute drive to the nearest Apple store with a Genius Bar opening... on Wednesday. Phone support's solution was an eager willingness to ship me one for $7.

Fuck this company.

Note: two Apple stores inside of 20 miles but neither will schedule an appointment at all.

jesus christ these ios update notifications are getting more and more annoying. just got the second one in what must be six hours. i'll update when I damn well please!

otm. just go the whole nine yards and block the phone completely until updated.

Note: two Apple stores inside of 20 miles but neither will schedule an appointment at all.

Struggled with this for days. Eventually found out that each day they add all the new appointment in the middle of the night (maybe just after midnight?) so you need to log on early to get one.

This is possibly the thing that pisses me off most about Apple: they're the only retailer I can think of where you can't just take back faulty goods to the store without making a (sometimes impossible to obtain) appointment first. Kind of feel it must be in contravention of consumer laws.

Huh? I thought the problem was that they won't schedule appointments, not that you can't walk in (and wait and wait) for service

Well yeah, you can wait and wait and wait if you like, but I don't really consider that an acceptable option.

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"Your storage is full" thanks Apple, I'll just go delete some photos of my friends and family but at least I'll always have the stocks app

Interesting

http://uk.businessinsider.com/qa-with-an-apple-store-worker-2016-5

Whyyyyyyyy does home sharing suddenly not work after the latest iOS update? Why can't I use my iPad or iPhone as a remote for iTunes any longer? Why do you continue to fuck up good things, Apple?

Is there any point to lightning cables other than to try to coerce you to buy more apple-branded bullshit? I fucking hate them, they fail so quickly, their connectors are unprotected meaning they corrode more easily, and all the non-apple-branded ones seem to work less well, even the "officially licensed" ones or whatever. My phone has to be coerced into charging now.

coaxed into charging I mean

I have not had such problems but that sounds hellish

My phone has to be coerced into charging now.

Is your slot full of fluff? Both my lightning slot and headphone jack get totally filled with lint which stops em working

Me too. I used a toothpick to gently get that stuff out of there.

this long-running issue means it's impossible for me to back up my ipad via itunes. disconnects every single time, and there's no way to fix it. i won't use icloud backup because (a) i don't trust it and (b) i'm not paying for a backup service that doesn't even do a full backup.

last time i contacted apple about a software issue they called me ~20 times to request more information and never fixed the problem anyway. it's like they have the best intentions but are just crap at building this stuff.

http://www.stereogum.com/1893065/no-control-thoughts-on-the-end-of-the-headphone-jack-and-the-future-of-digital-music/franchises/but-whos-buying/

Great article.

The DRM stuff doesn't really scare me (if they offer a lightning-to-HP jack adapter, then the analog hole is still there), I'm more concerned about latency for music production apps.

And I don't want to have to use some stupid dongle or be forced to buy stupid Beats headphones or whatever. Plus, how do you charge the phone while using audio output? Yet another dongle, I assume. Boo.

imo if they offer adapters one will be a wireless Bluetooth receiver. I have one that works great already, only complaints are apple's current lack of support for higher quality audio streaming codecs and a relatively low battery life. And it's far from new! The one I have is a Sony Ericsson model from when that brand existed, and it's also a FM radio receiver

what is interesting is that minidisc-style headphones with "sl" length cords, meant to be used with an inline remote, are pretty relevant again

Bluetooth adapter could have a similar form factor to one of the iPod shuffles, come with a clip and such. Charge via lightning, just leave it dangling from your headphones. Sounds almost appealing that way.

otm, I would love that. maybe the music app could even have a pre-streaming function, you could wander away from the phone for a bit and it'd work until you came back

I could become the douche listening to headphones at the urinal

RIP Techserve

aw man. I remember that melted Mac. it used to have a little sign taped to it that said "Another successful Tekserve data recovery!"

https://67.media.tumblr.com/30f49691de31895b0052595900cfae03/tumblr_od1owiFbDe1qa9yvvo1_1280.png

Fuck a 7

Can't believe I misspelled Tekserve. I blame autocorrect.

This is the strongest pull I've felt to date toward switching away from the iPhone. In a few days I'll be able to upgrade and I'm considering not waiting for the 7 and moving to an android phone.

will skip the numeral update for the first time since iphone 3g - I think i can still get two more years from the iphone 6
OTOH i really need to get a new iPad - is it worth waiting for an update or have they basically given up perfecting the regular ipad?

afaik the Air 2 or w/e is still pretty good, not sure if the mini needs a refresh. no idea how they're going to brand these suckers going forward

I'm probably going to upgrade just to get the better camera and try and outrun this touch disease thing.

Mini 4 is my favourite iPad yet

Air 2 works well without a lot of lag, but I won't be upgrading the iOS past 9...