I HATE APPLE

>I have it on but never for photos, which has suited me fine.

― Alba, Wednesday, December 20, 2017

expert life advice, thank you

One of the USB-C ports on my six month old MBP went out a couple weeks ago and I finally got around to getting it fixed. To Apple's credit, they had it fixed it in four days but the whole experience this time rankled - especially taking a day off to sort through "this Time Machine archive is newer than the installed OS" b.s. to just restore everything back. I dunno... I keep thinking about the apocryphal F-16 story - great plane but a software bugs caused it to flip over into inverted flight when crossing the equator

https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/

if there's anything good to come of this, us$50 off replacement batteries for a year is not terrible. shame their hand had to be forced though.

there needs to be a word for this kind of apology which is only issued two weeks after someone exposes your bullshit.

Agree, $29 for a battery is damn good

I think they completely fucked up but I also think this was some well-wishing engineer’s idea that was poorly implemented and not a cynical way to market new phones. I might be completely naive, though

targeting an acceptable number of running hours and prioritizing that over some speed makes sense, doing it to a noticeable point, and also not making it a preference you can turn on, smells like an attempt to head off battery complaints without the debate putting it in as a setting would cause

now they’ve got the debate and backlash anyway

I have a 7 and I’m on 11.2 so for me the paranoia begins

fuck Apple

nice, gonna send in like 5 phones for battery replacement.

has to be 6 or later model

oh i read that as later as in older

i just did/bought parts for battery replacements for two 6's :[

i gotta say, i wasn't too mad at this. i remember my iphones randomly shutting off at like, 40% charge and i'd be out far away from home and wondering what the hell happened. their transparency w/r/t policy was shit though. and ultimately this leads back to the design decision of not making the battery user replaceable

^^

My 6s was shutting off all the time at 20-30% and a year ago I got a free battery out of it due to meeting some specific criteria. It’s been better since but still doesn’t last anywhere near as long as it did when it was brand new in the fall of 2015.

I’ll probably pay $30 for another new battery at the last possible moment to try and get another year out of it because I have no desire to upgrade and lose my headphone jack.

i guess my SE isn't affected

however, iFixit is now offering DIY battery kits for $29, for all iPhones

yep just ordered one of those for my old 5, now my daughter’s, who has to charge twice a day at present just for her young person life of Instagram sms & messenger

My iPhone is doing something weird and I am dying to know why. It's a 6 ,and since I installed iOS 11 last Saturday, Bluetooth turns on every morning at 5:00 a.m. I know it's happening b/c when the Bluetooth receiver attached to my stereo connects to a device, it sends very loud BOO-DOOP! noise through the stereo speakers. (I could just turn the stereo off, but I've gone from being annoyed to being really curious about the cause, so I leave it on to make sure it's happening.)

Any ideas what this is all about??

You have to turn Bluetooth or WiFi off in settings to shut them off completely now. If you just do
It from control center it only disables from the current connection, and for 24 hours.

Ah.... That's kind of annoying!

But also odd b/c I routinely turn off BT between 6-10 pm every night (when I'm not going to listen to any more music or podcasts and when I don't want noises from a game going through the stereo speakers) so that's only less than 12 hours max.

It's not 24 hours, I answered your question elsewhere ding dong.

“it’s not an issue, it’s a feature”

Also fuck Apple for persistently trying to auto correct “fuck” to “duck” what the duck

Sorry Jeff, I came here before seeing your answer elsewhere. That’s a dumb feature or dumbly implemented and definitely dumbly not communicated.

Also dumb: the BT connector so boisterously proclaiming BOODOOP! upon connecting. (And BEEBOOMP! upon disconnecting).

Duck/fuck is pretty easy to get around. Just go to settings/general/keyboard/text replacement. Add the phrase fuck and leave shortcut blank.

Of course you shouldn’t have to do that. Fuck apple.

is it "do not disturb" turning off for the day?

Prissy, is what that is. "Oh *surely* you're a nice person and intended to write 'ducking hell'?"

if i want the meltdown/spectre patch does that mean i need to upgrade to high sierra? is apple going to patch older versions as well? seems like they should since this bug goes back 20 years.

Sierra is still getting security fixes I think

following

this article seems like a good overview but does not answer your questions

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/03/kernel-panic-what-are-meltdown-and-spectre-the-bugs-affecting-nearly-every-computer-and-device/

if i'm reading this right it was fixed last month (to the extent possible, lol) in high sierra, sierra and el capitan

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT208331

The shittiness of autocorrect on iOS 11.2 is driving me fucking crazy with all the capitalizations.

Just so utterly bad.

thanks caek, that's good to know.

has anybody found out if iPhones are affected? seemed like ARM chips are affected as well, I wonder if Apple's custom silicon walled it off.

Fuck, they fixed it in Sierra? I finally upgraded to HS because of this

i'm still holding off upgrading to HS because I have a few random 32bit apps I don't want to lose the ability to use. What am I supposed to do????

only run software that you trust and keep your web browser updated to avoid javascript attacks

the main risk here is shared-use machines, especially virtual machines in hosting environments. there are some (impressive) javascript proof of concepts that do similar tricks with latency to try to mine memory, but that's a separate issue and the main browsers have already made changes to block that kind of behavior. and that's already been out there for quite a while

if you don't actually run software that has an attack in it, and your machine isn't set up to run someone else's code, you're pretty unlikely to be at risk. and if you're running random untrusted programs to begin with, you likely have larger problems

the huge-ass risk here was that someone would unleash an attack on a cloud provider, or any shared host where they could legitimately run an executable, and then dump memory from processes they shouldn't have access to. the main attack target is going to be servers, not client machines

The shittiness of autocorrect on iOS 11.2 is driving me fucking crazy with all the capitalizations.

Just so utterly bad.

i use Gboard, which is basically the same thing as SwiftKey? i think? with extras gifs??

my ios has decided super MARIO has to be screamed for some reason

Gboard is good, and free. All hail Google.

My current and ongoing homicidal level iOS hate is that if it autocorrects to something capitalised, which is utterly wrong, when I delete that word to retype it, it has the shift engaged for capitalising even if I never pressed it in the first place WTF.

^this

Yeah :(

YeAh

is this an English-only problem? I haven't run into it yet in French, in which I write about half of my iOS text. but I'm seeing it in English for sure.

HEADS UP #macadmins : Apple JUST updated https://t.co/enQVRINXR3 today (Jan 5th) and REMOVED mention of 10.12 and 10.11 being fixed for CVE-2017-5754 aka #Meltdown

Only 10.13.2 contains the fix.

— mikeymikey (@mikeymikey) January 5, 2018

not Apple specific but I aaw a couple “enable this setting in chrome!” Twitter posts retweeted today that definitely have shit-all to do with this problem but claimed they were related. and came from “security” accounts

we’re still at “reboot twice, edit registry/these two config files” public literacy

That’s all I do