I HATE APPLE

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

it is pretty shit, tbf. still better than the others, but y'know.

and the hardware thing is an embarrassment.

the majority of my workplace is still locked on Windows 7

that's not really relevant in any way, I just had to vent

for those of us who depend on Adobe, it's OSX or Windows.

I spent a bit of time debating hackintosh but it just didn't seem solid enough. I can't be worrying about losing my computer every time there's an update.

So I'm looking at Windows machines while waiting for mac desktop hardware updates that may never come.

any one have problems w/ whole albums failing to sync to your iphone from itunes? i selected some albums to sync w/ my phone in itunes and only a few tracks made it, and i get this "show complete album" crap that doesn't work at all when i tap it

i did some searching online but fuck apple forums are awful and everything i read made my head hurt

Haha, completely off topic but somewhat related - I somehow resurrected an iPod 2G from the dead. I had to restore it to update it from iOS 2.2 to 4.2, but I can still play the old version of Drop7 at least.

My point was you think the mac forums are bad, you ought to go on there and search out how to restore and update an iPod 2G in the year 2017 CE.

man those old ipods were awesome imo

heck yeah drop7

i had a 3rd gen ipod nano that was one of the best portable music devices ive owned

ipod classic (5.5 and later models) basically unsurpassed for me. Feel fortunate to have a final generation one in very good condition (and a second-to-last generation one with some bad sectors on its drive that I hope to get modded with 512 GB SD memory at some point.)

syncing music to an iphone is the shittiest nightmare, I will never try to use one as a music player again. It's like they are punishing you for wanting to do so.

The grayed out selections which can never be fully synced successfully but whose spectral forms can never be deleted from the library either

i have an ipod classic still, one w/ an absurd amount of storage, but the battery sucks so it basically has to just sit w/ a charger in it all the time

OSX is probably bad and outdate dnow but otoh i can't think of anything else i use my mac for other than web browsing

If for some reason the 2013-ish MacBook Pro I have at home stops working someday (and I think it'll keep working for a while) I'd probably do something outlandish like buy a compact desktop and put FreeBSD on it. The main thing I've been using my Mac for lately is doing crossword puzzles with Black Ink.

syncing music to an iphone is the shittiest nightmare, I will never try to use one as a music player again. It's like they are punishing you for wanting to do so.

I've not tried but won't be doing given the hassle I'm having trying to get photos off the iPhone

'we will make your experience using a corded connection so stupid and unpleasant you'll never go corded again'

xp yea i've barely even delved into photos (i don't take a lot of photos w/ my phone) but my wife has and it seems like a nightmare. the switch from iPhoto (which was shitty) to Photos after we upgraded to capitan was rough to deal with. also even like the simple act of copy and paste is changed now to "duplicate"?

Don't know how you're syncing your music, marcos, but I solved all of my problems with that by giving up on drag and drop manual management, creating an "iPhone" playlist where I put everything I want on the phone, and setting the iPhone to sync that playlist. No issues at all since I started doing it that way. I used to get the partial album thing all the time with manual management.

yea that's probably a better way of doing it. i was manually managing it, checking off boxes next to individual albums, which was tedious enough.

creating an "iPhone" playlist where I put everything I want on the phone, and setting the iPhone to sync that playlist

^^^ only way to fly

I also no longer drag and drop, which gave me all those problems, but set the iPhone to synch whichever playlists I want.

I admit with shame that I add music to iTunes on my laptop and then utilize iTunes Match to download it to my phone a couple minutes later

this is the worst possible world, but sadly it is also the best possible world