I HATE APPLE

i took my 2013 macbook pro to genius bar a few months ago bc it wouldn't turn on and the repair fee was actually a really good deal, it was $200 or something and they would fix/replace anything that was damaged and it turned out they essentially replaced almost all the parts so it totally beat having to buy a new laptop

I've been at a genius bar quite a lot recently and it seemed like 90% of the people were there for iPhone repairs, mostly broken screens, but they're doing great business so I can't imagine it's bank-breaking labor.

Worst news ever! fuck fuck fuck

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/11/16/apple-dissolves-mac-automation-management-post-sal-soghoian-to-leave-company

Apple dissolves Mac automation management post, Sal Soghoian to leave company
By Mikey Campbell

Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 04:48 pm PT (07:48 pm ET)

It was revealed on Wednesday that longtime Apple Product Manager of Automation Technologies Sal Soghoian, whose work is responsible for services like AppleScript and Automator, will be leaving the company in December as his post was recently eliminated.

seems like the sort of person they'd want to retain in a sinecure even if they didn't want to actually work on AppleScript anymore. :\

Maybe he was a bad employee in other ways. Like stealing people's yogurt from the fridge.

Automator always seemed like it would be great but I just never got it. It was neither pointy-clicky enough nor scriptable enough, but some netherworld in between.

It's not Automator that I'm worried about, it's all of AppleScript. I'm heavily dependent on it - especially in iTunes.

I haven't delved into the newer stuff enough, but the really obvious long-term plan would be
- Surface all of the app functionality currently available to AppleScript via a better API. As far as I know, all of that stuff currently requires the use of an Objective C NSAppleScript/NSAppleScriptTask object, even from Swift, which is garbage.
- Make all the scripting hooks accessible natively, including granted security (I don't think macOS has app-specific granting of permissions like iOS, but I might be wrong). Getting that security model in place is necessary and really is part of the huge iOS feature to macOS feature backport that is kind of happening in that iOS, while really limited in some ways, is a better modern OS
- Document the Siri functionality and make the common actions available to the automation API

I've been playing with Workflow on iOS and it can do a lot of things I didn't think possible on iOS, but it's still incredibly limited compared with Automator/AppleScript. But the same model would be great for Automator-style actions. Not the in-app window positioning and the like, not really without an interface to dig down into deeper granular actions. The basic stuff would work really well if the above happened, though.

I thought sending a music file from inside the Music app was completely impossible but in about ten seconds I created a Workflow workflow (hmm naming needs work here) that sent the currently playing song to Dropbox

A somewhat popular theory in the dev community is that Automator/AppleScript will be superseded by similar functionality in Swift Playgrounds. Makes sense really, but sawing that arm off is going to be rough.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/21/apple-ceases-airport-wireless/

booo

the 802.11ac airport router I have is the worst apple wireless product I've had, out of like... five? I think it has something to do with a device connected via IPv6 and it somehow completely sucks at IPv6. You can disable it to manual or link-local mode, but doing so takes a config change and restart and for some reason it locks up every time I attempt a config change -- like I hit save, it restarts, and never comes back

I'm going to try resetting the whole thing, configuring it how I want it, then changing the name back so all the clients reconnect, but not being able to make any changes to the config right now is incredibly irritating. Somehow it still takes software updates without freezing on restart so it's on the newest firmware, sooo... hell if I know.

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/the-new-macbook-pro-is-kind-of-great-for-hackers-64c1c577a4d2#.vc3s9p5b1

yeah that's right

Interface shit / dongle multiplication is utterly cyclical. Endless diversification into proprietary ports for this and that eventually makes product designers go crazy enough that they decide it's time for one plug to rule them all. The new plug is cool for a couple of years until product designers decide they hate it and its stupid limitations, and it all begins again.

with the exception of every machine taking unleaded gasoline having the same size spout iirc

even that is kind of fucked because diesel should really be a different shape/size but apparently is not

that article really underlines how fucked it is that iphone is all in on lightning instead of usbc

Diesel is a different size!

I know this because I once spent five minutes trying to stick the nozzle into my CRV, going what the fuck is the matter with this, before realizing that I had come *this* close to ruining my engine right there in the Kroger parking lot.

Yep, I've done that.

I stand corrected, and also possibly reminded that I have done this

did I mention that Bedtime totally just decided to NOT wake me up one day last week? I had a charge, had changed nothing in the settings. No alarm. Nothing. FFFFUUUUUCK THAT SHIIIIIIIIIIT

Back to the stock alarm app which I have to manually turn off at the weekends ffs

Gas nozzles are governed by UL, old school:

https://standardscatalog.ul.com/standards/en/standard_2586a

1.5 This standard does not cover hose nozzle valves for use with diesel, biodiesel, diesel/biodiesel blends, kerosene or fuel oil, which are covered under the Standard for Hose Nozzle Valves for Diesel Fuel, Biodiesel Fuel, Diesel/Biodiesel Blends with Nominal Biodiesel Concentrations up to 20 Percent (B20), Kerosene, and Fuel Oil, UL 2586B.

Back to the stock alarm app which I have to manually turn off at the weekends ffs

You can set the stock alarm app to weekdays only — tap repeat then check mon-fri

ok done

Optical drive of my 2010 MBP is dying. Bought an Apple USB Superdrive. It then turns out (maybe should have researched that before buying) these only work with MB's that were originally supplied without an optical drive. Found a solution online: MBP recognizes the superdrive. Start ripping some CDs, the second one of which is spit out half way through the process. As is the third. Motherfuckers! Get a cheap Asus the next day, that ugly motherfucker works like a charm. The HATE is building up...

Same deal with using borrowed SuperDrive with my 2008 Mac Pro, had to do the terminal thing to get it to work and it was totally fine after that.

I have a blu-ray drive in my oldass mac pro and rip redbox discs lol

> You can set the stock alarm app to weekdays only

this might be my favourite thing about mobile phones - programmable alarms. did alarm clocks with

a) alarms that you could set at different times for different days +
b) multiple alarms on the same day (first one plays a tune, second one 30 minutes later plays tune and vibrates like a mofo, but only on weekdays)
c) allowed customisable sounds

even exist before phones came along and made them obsolete?

+ android lets you toggle days so you are not limited to choosing weekends / weekdays, could have mon, wed, fri alarm different from tue and thu if you like.

c'mon you're trying to hurt me now

+ android lets you toggle days so you are not limited to choosing weekends / weekdays, could have mon, wed, fri alarm different from tue and thu if you like.

(you can do this in ios as well)

you can right click on macos too btw

macos

Optical drive of my 2010 MBP is dying. Bought an Apple USB Superdrive. It then turns out (maybe should have researched that before buying) these only work with MB's that were originally supplied without an optical drive. Found a solution online: MBP recognizes the superdrive. Start ripping some CDs, the second one of which is spit out half way through the process. As is the third. Motherfuckers! Get a cheap Asus the next day, that ugly motherfucker works like a charm. The HATE is building up...

new mbp is garbage FYI

My 2011 Mini currently has twice the RAM (16GB) than is possible with the current Minis, have I got that right?

16GB costs you extra but is possible

ah gotcha. why have i become such a grampa with apple shit

odds that iphone 8 will switch to usb-c?

i would vote no ports at all is more probable

but not very probable

lol i've been wondering why "save as" doesn't appear in the file menu on my mac

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/bring-back-the-save-as-command-to-your-macs-file-menu/

wtf apple

Thank you!

what? how are you supposed save out a different version? WHAT?

You duplicate and rename, obv. Then you go back to the original and revert your changes back to the last-opened state. Also obviously.

turning on "desktop and documents" for icloud drive took all of my files from "my documents" (several thousand) and put them on icloud. then deleted the local copies. now i have no way of getting them back on my computer except downloading them one by one through a web browser.

fuck you apple

holy shit :(

Do they not copy back if you move them to a non-iCloud folder? Think they are supposed to

Having a ridiculous time trying to get fucking iMessage working on my kid's phone (no SIM - he's just using an old iPhone as an iPod Touch). It just sits there "awaiting activation" forever. Plus, it thinks it has my phone number, etc. Apple is horrible at cloud.

Do they not copy back if you move them to a non-iCloud folder? Think they are supposed to

in theory but it kept hanging when i tried to do that because of the size of the directory

in the end it was fastest to simply restore from time capsule

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

At one point I'd really have liked to rely on apple for cloud and services but they've proven time and time again that it's just not good. Like if you're only using apple stuff and only using their software and using it the way they want and have always been using it maybe it works?

For me, I'm very happy with dropbox and google for various services.

Like if you're only using apple stuff and only using their software and using it the way they want and have always been using it maybe it works?

you would think!!

i've been using icloud since day 1 pretty much and it has been nothing but problems