I HATE APPLE

Oh yeah and BATTERY LIFE feels terrible so far; I'd go for days without charging the air but am only getting ~5 hours on this piece of shit.

turned out my phone was indeed bricked. i actually just took the opportunity to leave the iphone behind. got a oneplus five instead.

Joygoat otm

LG makin the jump!

The air will be that last good mac

Those Anker leads do charge as fast as the apple ones I've found, or at least not noticeably slower. And the pvc sheaving is a few mill thicker and feel more durable. Good gear, man - especially for £4.65.

We had one of those, great machine. Couple of years ago though, its battery bloated up so badly the track pad was cracked in half, and we had to get its hd extracted by the jaws of life

Replaced the battery a couple of years ago because it was holding so little charge

this is the best $60 i spent last year https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B012BZMD24/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

That is very good value. I'm still on my 2013 MBA and no intention of changing any time soon.

it even came screwdrivers for the ridiculous tamperproof screws

am a VIM diehard so the virtual ESC key is fucking awful -

IT DOESN'T HAVE AN ESCAPE KEY???!

i had been thinking about buying a refurbished recent model to replace my wheezing old macbook but this is BEYOND THE PALE

a lot of serious vim users i know were like 'who still uses the escape key?'. they all rebind `jk` to escape (the ability to go down a line then immediately back up is no loss), or use use ctrl-[ which is escape by default. both of these are closer to the home row (and therefore quicker) than esc (although the second one only if you have a sanely positioned ctrl key, which on mac means you've rebound caps lock to control).

Ha I just thought "i should rebind 'jk' to esc" and found "inoremap jj <ESC>" in my .vimrc. Apparently I set this up and never got into the habit.

I like reaching for the escape key (on my mechanical keyboard from Monoprice), like I'm hitting the "stop editing!" panic button or something.

The real move of course is a foot pedal.

I quite regularly find the only way out of some popup thing in a browser is hitting the esc key. On Facebook business manager, it starts suggesting names you might be wanting to tag, and if you don't want to tag anyone, hitting escape seems to be the only way out.

wonder how long until all the useful apps move to a subscription model

https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/10/silent-10-minute-song-itunes-car-stereo-trick/

so people are paying a dollar for 10 minutes of silence because of bad apple design

lol

iOS 11 just sent me a notification that said “You have a new memory” and showed me a summary of last month’s photos. Go fuck yourself

I guess the familiarity is what bothers me. Like the phone is trying to be nice. The use of the second person. I’d even be ok with “new memory.” But don’t try to assume I now possess something that’s beyond your ability to quantify.

Clippy never went away, did he?

Except now, I guess we can all talk to Clippy.

Fuck Clippy too

Clippy and Siri should get into some s&m shit together and just end up having fatal accidents for all I care

lol http://tidbits.com/article/17412

does this dude understand how business decisions are made

as in, dropping the consumer plan in favor of small business plans isn't necessarily the end result of a nefarious multi-year plan. if you have a meeting to determine how to make things profitable and decide to stick with X items in your range of products, it doesn't mean that next year's strategy decision won't be different

I'm a CrashPlan user :(((.

yeah i think he's angry that he's literally built a career shilling for them and they don't seem to have respected his work by giving him a heads-up

hoo boy

sometimes when a product is the best and seems to be a great value it really is because it's too cheap, shocker

:(

happy w backblaze so far

Bummed to say it, but I'm really disappointed in the new MacBook Pro. It's much lighter than my 7-year-old one, but that's really the only thing it has going for it. It's not nearly as much faster as I hoped it would be, and the keyboard is a bummer. And though they're both 13-inches, the screen is smaller on this one. First time I've ever bought a computer that didn't feel like a huge upgrade over the last one.

That's very sad. I guess you'll have to take the redesign and less weight as a "feature"

hah i just finihsed backing up all my infos to crashplan... took like a month

I'm a CrashPlan user :(((.

― Jeff, Tuesday, August 22, 2017 11:53 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too :(

what should i move to?

backblaze is the new wirecutter/joe kissell pick http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-online-backup-service/

i'm a collosal nerd so i use arq which is a program that you need to separately by cloud storage for.

as if the apple tv 4 wasn't already the single worst piece of fucking garbage i have ever bought in my entire life, failing in literally every single respect (since a shitty software update several months ago it won't even play videos properly), the crappy slippery fucking metal & glass remote just slid out of my hand and chipped my phone screen.

something is seriously wrong with yours, I haven’t had any of those probs!

it all went downhill after the 10.1 (?) software update. i did a factory reset a couple of weeks ago, nothing changed.

also it doesn't help that apps like youtube can't be bothered issuing tvos app updates ever.

Has anyone ever had an issue with the audio disappearing from videos shot with iPhone (the 6 in this instance). The audio was there when we were at the location yesterday afternoon, but last night after getting home, all but one of the videos we'd shot play back silently. Have tried power cycling, updating iOS, hard reset, and Reset All Settings, to no avail. A bit desperate as these will be hard videos to recreate.

(Note: when we first got home, no videos, including ones taken weeks ago, had sound. After updating iOS, old videos had their sound back and the first video we'd taken yesterday had its sound back, but not the rest of yesterday's work).

Silly question but are you playing these back on the phone or on a computer? Try computer if you're not already. And double check the mute slider isn't on on your phone.

I tried dropboxing one to the computer, but it remained silent there.

caek, which cloud destination do you use (or would you suggest to use) with arq? ~3 TB

when i committed a couple of years back, google nearline was the right answer.

looking at the table at https://www.arqbackup.com/features/ i think it probably still is, but i'm a bit out of the loop.

one caveat: nearline, coldline and the AWS options (S3 and glacier) and a bit fiddly to set up if you've never used AWS or Google Cloud before. i'm sure someone's written it down somewhere though. and i think if you're over 1TB your options among the consumer-oriented versions (Amazon Drive, Dropbox etc.) are limited and pricey

hmm, backblaze b2 looks good, although i'd be slightly nervous about them being a smaller company and not sticking around.

Or you know, a lapse in security

i'm not a security person, but arq encrypts the data end to end. given enough time and nation state level resources it's probably breakable. but if nation state level resources are required somewhere in the chain of events that leads to your data being stolen then the difficulty of exfiltrating the encrypted data in the first place seems like a pretty minor challenge.

thanks!

My iCloud got hacked last night! At least I think that's what happened. I woke up and my phone had been locked from a foreign country. I was able to unlock it and reset my iCloud password. My MacBook Pro had been working for a little bit but then it defaulted to a grey screen asking for a pin with a sketchy email that it says to contact. I tried to reboot into recovery mode but it now has a firmware password set. Waiting until 8 so I can call Apple but maybe someone here has some idea of how to get rid of this?

Holy crap dude