I HATE APPLE

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

on the other hand i just an SE and it is great, i hope they keep this phone around for a long time

*got

i have an iphone 7 and it is better than my iphone 5 in every way

you dont care about the jack?

nope

the only times i use my phone for music are in the car and when i'm working out. in the car it connects by lightning/USB, and working out it's actually way way better to use bluetooth headphones, so i just ponied up for some

I might be less thrilled if I had a 6s, but I also feel like the 7 is pretty awesome having come from a 6

i'm getting more and more used to the new mbp, as far as keyboard and trackpad go. overall it's still ... not what i was hoping for, but getting better. not sure i'm ready to call it a failure.

otoh that wireless mouse thing is kinda dumb imo, it's 2016 already, get on the bluetooth train

tbf bluetooth has sucked in many ways (battery life mainly) and logitech is good with their receiver tech

but it's been fine for a while now

i like my magic mouse 2. holds its charge for a really long time, charges up super fast with usb c → lightning. best mouse i've ever had, really.

i'm not too bothered about the port controversy. everything is going to be usb-c in a little bit, right? reminds me of the controversy over ditching the optical drive.

remember when there was a controversy over ditching the floppy drive

there's probably some hardcore apple fan very angry about the lack of ADB adapter

magic mouse 2 works really well even if the lighting port on the bottom is utterly contemptible. at work i have a backup trackpad that i can use while the mouse is charging (fyi i have a macbook at work w/ an large external mac display, obv i could just use the macbook trackpad if was just using the labtop)

lightning*

'm getting more and more used to the new mbp, as far as keyboard and trackpad go.

turning off most of the trackpad gestures helped a lot with the palm rejection issues i was having. as for the rest ... yeah, i guess i'll get used to it.

i still can't get over the fact that it feels slower than the 2yo rMBP I use for work. there's a perceptible lag switching between iTunes and Chrome.

four usb-c ports is actually my favorite thing about this.

here we go...

https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/816505511172567040

not run linux on the desktop for 12 years but i'm thinking about it when my current mac dies

Wait did I miss something

ppl are angry at the new hardware and think the OS is bad now for some reason or another