i have an iphone 7 and it is better than my iphone 5 in every way
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 19 December 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
you dont care about the jack?
― marcos, Monday, 19 December 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
nope
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 19 December 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
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
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 19 December 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
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
― mh 😏, Monday, 19 December 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
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
― the late great, Monday, 19 December 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
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
― mh 😏, Monday, 19 December 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
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.
― the late great, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
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
― mh 😏, Monday, 19 December 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
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)
― marcos, Monday, 19 December 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
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.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 19 December 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 13:23 (seven years ago) link
Wait did I miss something
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link
ppl are angry at the new hardware and think the OS is bad now for some reason or another
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link
it is pretty shit, tbf. still better than the others, but y'know.
― stet, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link
and the hardware thing is an embarrassment.
the majority of my workplace is still locked on Windows 7
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 14:01 (seven years ago) link
that's not really relevant in any way, I just had to vent
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 14:02 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
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
― marcos, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
i did some searching online but fuck apple forums are awful and everything i read made my head hurt
― marcos, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link
man those old ipods were awesome imo
― marcos, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
heck yeah drop7
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
i had a 3rd gen ipod nano that was one of the best portable music devices ive owned
― marcos, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
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.)
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
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.
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
The grayed out selections which can never be fully synced successfully but whose spectral forms can never be deleted from the library either
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
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
― marcos, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
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
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:12 (seven years ago) link
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.
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
I've not tried but won't be doing given the hassle I'm having trying to get photos off the iPhone
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
'we will make your experience using a corded connection so stupid and unpleasant you'll never go corded again'
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:38 (seven years ago) link
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"?
― marcos, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
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.
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
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.
― marcos, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link
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
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
I also no longer drag and drop, which gave me all those problems, but set the iPhone to synch whichever playlists I want.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
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
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:56 (seven years ago) link
this is the worst possible world, but sadly it is also the best possible world
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
this is what i do but albums that i purchased from itunes not on the playlist still show up on my phone, even though i can't play them.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
mizzell, there's a setting you can use to turn that off. forget what it's called and am no longer on iphone, sorry.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/hmDZ6hH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qENiRWc.jpg
^ I mean, just look at that YouTube icon.
― pplains, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
I have one of these around somewhere
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 18:04 (seven years ago) link
Dude looks like J0hn D's angry twin brother xp
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
lol that is pplains
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
Haha omg PP <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
Got a NAS to use as a home media server and pulled my iTunes library that I hadn't touched in 3 years off a backup drive, holy shit they've managed to make iTunes worse in the intervening years.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
I'll go and finally update iTunes as punishment for my gaffe
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link