I HATE APPLE

A somewhat popular theory in the dev community is that Automator/AppleScript will be superseded by similar functionality in Swift Playgrounds.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

actually, that's not fair - notes and email work well enough as does the icloud keychain and the icloud photo library

anything file related has been a disaster though

iCloud Photo Library is bad at syncing deletes — I keep finding crap photos I have deleted from my phone sitting there on my Mac.

Keychain is probably the only one that has ever worked consistently for me.

lol I tried turning parental controls on today

even with only spotify and firefox added to the stock user installation and 'Allow all applications' set, merely logging in triggers a phalanx of popups asking for credentials to allow various helper applications to run, and filling them out once is not enough. they come back on every login.

http://i.imgur.com/qYs654j.jpg

yoinks

http://i.imgur.com/zG0NsWk.jpg

yea new macbook and iphone 7 have been failures imo

icloud has always been shit

that airpod service fee schedule is hilarious

clearly better than some 100-year-old technology though right