I had to buy this.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207266
― Spottie, Thursday, 26 January 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
There will be more options as USB-C gains traction but https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13234
― mh 😏, Thursday, 26 January 2017 02:34 (seven years ago) link
sorry that was was large DP, they also have mini DP
Don't think that will work with the display I have
"Apple Thunderbolt Displays, like the video input on Thunderbolt iMacs, drop compatibility with all previous standards, including VGA, DVI, and DisplayPort.[5] They are not compatible with computers that do not have a Thunderbolt port, including pre-2011 Macs and the vast majority of PCs."
― Spottie, Thursday, 26 January 2017 02:48 (seven years ago) link
Thunderbolt is not DisplayPort. You can plug a mini DP into a Thunderbolt port, but TB also has high speed data, USB etc.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Thursday, 26 January 2017 02:48 (seven years ago) link
ah crap yeah, if you want to do thunderbolt passthrough it probably wouldn't work
― mh 😏, Thursday, 26 January 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
lmao what the fuck, the monitors ONLY work on macs?
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 26 January 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link
made after 2011?
i just bought a new phone today. an iPhone SE. its pretty great. its a massive upgrade from my last iPhone 5s, which couldn't download apps anymore because it required a OS version too advanced for my machine. there's that designed obsolescence for you.
the picture quality is very nice, and it is much lighter than my old phone. design wise it looks sick, like some real life TNG shit. the camera is way way better and includes slow-mo, which i am super thrilled to have! i have already made a slow-mo video of my cat leaping off the ground. this is really cool.
most importantly i can now download apps and use things other than Instagram. and the internet works. my last phone was like using a dial up modem. 3 out of 5 times it would just fail to load any webpage. tbf i had dropped it on the ground a lot, to the point where the screen was permanently shattered. it still worked, and it looked so cyberpunk! RIP old phone
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 January 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link
???iOS 10 runs fine on my 5s
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Thursday, 26 January 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I went from 5S to 5SE and speed was the only difference I noticed, plus better camera I guess.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Thursday, 26 January 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, design-wise isn't it pretty much identical to the 5s? Maybe meant 4S.
― Alba, Friday, 27 January 2017 08:06 (seven years ago) link
And the 5s has slo-mo too.
― Alba, Friday, 27 January 2017 08:07 (seven years ago) link
yeah i may have had a 4s not a 5s. it won't upgrade past Version 6.1.6
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 January 2017 11:53 (seven years ago) link
that'd be a 3GS then
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 27 January 2017 12:24 (seven years ago) link
My poor li'l 1st-gen iPad is stuck on 5.1.1 forever. It's still a good e-book reader and Words With Friends machine.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Friday, 27 January 2017 13:35 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I use mine for Kindle, Instapaper and Plex. It's amazing how quick the OS operates given how dog-slow a device it is. They really let that go post-iOS 7.
Starting to think sacking Forstall was a proper mistake
― stet, Friday, 27 January 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
I'll take slowness rather than have to live the skeuomorphic life again.
― Jeff, Friday, 27 January 2017 14:18 (seven years ago) link
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lol
― marcos, Friday, 27 January 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
SE is a good phone. not noticeably different from my 5s but im happy that i was able to get a new iphone in the same body as the 5
― marcos, Friday, 27 January 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
sorry for duplicate post
two days in, so far this touchbar is completely worthless and actually quite annoying. I have found zero use for it. I miss every single one of those keys that was up there on my older mbp
― Spottie, Saturday, 28 January 2017 04:00 (seven years ago) link
i don't use it very much except for typing emojis and also the volume and brightness sliders
having the volume and brightness sliders is actually kind of dope i think
― the late great, Saturday, 28 January 2017 04:18 (seven years ago) link
sorry
i use the brightness thing a ton but its not just permanently up there (unless im doing it wrong)
― Spottie, Saturday, 28 January 2017 04:19 (seven years ago) link
imo alot of the stuff the touch bar is currently utilized for is poorly thought out. for example, using it for tabs when browsing in safari. if you're browsing it's a lot faster to move your pointer to a tab or use the keyboard shortcut than to move your hand all the way to the touchbar.
― the late great, Saturday, 28 January 2017 04:20 (seven years ago) link
you can customize the touchbar i think tho i don't remember how or if i did it
yah thats a big gripe xp. just pointless
― Spottie, Saturday, 28 January 2017 04:22 (seven years ago) link
It'll be good when the whole keyboard is a screen w haptic feedback imo
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Saturday, 28 January 2017 06:01 (seven years ago) link
http://docs.bettertouchtool.net/docs/touch_bar.html
― Jeff, Saturday, 28 January 2017 10:27 (seven years ago) link
BetterTouchTool now supports the touchbar. I haven't used it for that, but it is an essential utility for the touchpad.
― Jeff, Saturday, 28 January 2017 10:28 (seven years ago) link
I like physical keys
― mh 😏, Saturday, 28 January 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
what the https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/apple-lg-5k-display-issues/
― just another (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
why did they stop making their own displays?
― Spottie, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 18:23 (seven years ago) link
they've stopped making anything that isn't relate dto the iphone
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link
I know there's a separate thread for this, but while I've been (unusually) patient with iTunes all this time, it's been giving me grief lately. Anyone have a preferred and reliable alternative? This would be for a crazy big music library, please keep in mind.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:10 (seven years ago) link
what are your needs? For playing stuff at home, there's the nerdiest possible option
― softie (silby), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
I have been poking around with some alternatives
all I've learned so far is that plex is acting weird about streaming flac files inside my house
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
Needs would be fairly simple -- it's mostly mp3s, some AAC/WAV/AIFF -- and just needs to play on my computer setup.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:17 (seven years ago) link
the nerdiest possible option
https://cdn.volumio.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/pi-2-design-503hta-i2s-dac-hybrid-tube-amp-for-the-raspberry-pi-VOLUMIO.jpg
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:51 (seven years ago) link
Swinsian
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link
Hmm, that looks like just what I would need.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
there's a way to set it up so that it watches your itunes folder, so anything added to itunes is added to swinsian. You can't sync the playlists though, which is a bummer. One day I'll replace iTunes with it completely.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
Hey, their website screenshots show Go-Betweens, Orange Juice, Beefheart etc.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
touch id kind of blows
― marcos, Monday, 13 February 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
it doesn't really work for me much anymore
now that you have to push home to unlock rather than swipe makes it an even bigger pain in the ass
― marcos, Monday, 13 February 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
really? might be worth blanking out your fingerprint in the list and adding it in again
only times I've had problems were right after getting out of the shower and trying to unlock, or the time I somehow added the same finger in the settings twice -- it would take forever or get confused
― mh 😏, Monday, 13 February 2017 20:46 (seven years ago) link
touch id is one of the only fancy apple doo-dads that has always worked perfectly for me. I hated the new "push home to unlock" behavior too, but luckily you can change it back to the old way: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/09/30/ios-10-tips-revert-touch-id-from-press-home-to-wake-back-to-rest-to-wake
― Dan I., Monday, 13 February 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link