I HATE APPLE

is windows or android « ahead of the times » ? I have to use both for my kids and they seem at least as shitty. is there a with the times alternative ?

artisanal DOS

i dunno i've never used them. i just feel like such a mook trying to like, copy two words from one app and paste them into another app

oh uh i HAVE used windows and yes it feels ahead of the times a little! or it at least feels actively paid attention to. macos increasingly feels like some desolate, empty conference centre after everyone's gone home

there are consumer televisions with slicker UIs than macos at this point

I wish someone had paid attention to how to get my daughter’s calculator to sync w windows 8 tonight. peripherals like that are always a crapshoot and I don’t know if it’d have been easier on Mac OS. but this sucked tonight.

are you just talking about like YouTube now? my orange livebox would be a shitty place to write an article.

We just got a ps4 and the ui is so frustrating. i keep having to google how to do things.

Nintendo Switch is my favorite computer, would use for email

Facebook on desktop looks really janky too. i know nobody cares about desktop anymore but man. it's like looking at your previous orders page on Amazon or something.

I care greatly about desktop and yes, it's a shambles.

YES!! THERE’S A NEW YOUTUBE APP FOR THE APPLE TV!! I BET THEY’VE FIXED ALL THE PROBLEMS!! LET’S SEE HOW MUCH BETTER IT oh

On the MacRumors forums, upcoming HomePod owners have also listed some songs they'll be using to test out the HomePod's capabilities when it arrives, including "Hotel California" from The Eagles, "Prelude and Kiara" from Bonobo, "Hits and Exit Wounds" from Alabama 3, "Core" from Stone Temple Pilots, "Your Latest Trick" by Dire Straits, and "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen.

no Sting??

It only plays U2

for some reason there's a part of my brain hard-wired to play Sting's single from 1999, "Desert Rose", any time I see his name on its own

now I'm imagining that coming out of a homepod

cool that the base of apple's massively overpriced speaker is also etching circles into the furniture of users around the world, good job guys

the solution is simple, simply restore your furniture after each use

lol thx apple

the good news i guess is that it only seems to be affecting people with more expensive furniture - yr shitty ikea mdf desk is unlikely to be affected

omg

The speaker requires a flat and solid surface in order to function correctly. Placing it on a coaster or mat negatively affects the audio quality, diminishing the bass response of the speaker – one of its key selling points.

I want one so bad. I don’t have nice furniture.

apple aiming for that demographic sweet spot of 'affluent enough to want a homepod, not affluent enough to have nice furniture'

I’m so annoyed by the ecosystem capture this apparently extremely nice powered speaker requires that I am probably going to buy something else I don’t really need out of pure spite

great opportunity for u to invest in a luge imo

2nd gen crap usually big improvement over 1st gen. Hold out for a year

“I never wanted a home speaker until Apple told me I did”

I already have four amazon surveillance devices, I just want to make sure all the big tech companies have equal access to spy on me.

Jeff’s introducing all that extra data to the system to help wreck any spying initiative

2nd gen crap usually big improvement over 1st gen. Hold out for a year

― calstars, Friday, February 16, 2018 8:42 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark

sometimes there isn't a 2nd gen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Hi-Fi

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/apple-s-new-spaceship-campus-has-one-flaw-and-it-hurts lol

I forgot about the hi fi! Anyone here own one?

Everyone needs to chill and buy a 20 dollar HomePod coaster

http://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/15/pad-and-quill-homepod-coaster/

And besides it’s not only Apple designers that clearly, like my grandfather, cover every wooden surface with glass.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/sonos-one-white-stains-wood-homepod-3396911

lol my friend and I immediately said “we need to sell a homepod coaster to chumps” when we saw that initial story

of course someone beat us to it

Is the silicone foot colored or natural (semi translucent)?

Where I work we have had countertop-staining issues with TPEs but not really with silicone.

matches the speaker color, I think

Sounds like it’s meant to have firm contact with whatever it’s on for bass transfer, so using a coaster is dampening it a little

just buy a plastic placemat

I just bought a 10.5-inch Space Gray iPad Pro specifically to use as a coaster for my HomePod. It keeps the aesthetic intact, and the proprietary hardened glass of the Retina™ screen profoundly tightens the HomePod's (already unprecedently tight) bass.

(^ i can't tell whether he's joking)

you’re holding it wrong

Employees in Apple Park, Apple’s grand new spaceship-style headquarters in California, keep walking into glass doors and windows.

Despite warnings from a building inspector that people would not be able to tell where the door ends and the wall begins, at least three Apple employees walked or ran into the ultra-transparent glass hard enough to require emergency medical treatment during the first month of occupation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/05/apple-park-workers-hurt-glass-walls-norman-foster-steve-jobs

briefly covered here

Silicon Valley Techno-Utopianism

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Apple-Park-Transcript-of-911-calls-about-12723602.php

Not sure where else to ask this. Why does my iPod Nano screen look like this?
https://i.imgur.com/prDZDlw.jpg

It was fine yesterday. Grabbed it on the way out this morning and noticed it's all pixelated. What the hell?

Probably the display connector is loose/damaged.

You wouldn't know how to fix that, would you?

It looks p cool tbh. Like a kidney with headphones on.

XP you'd probably have to open it up and see if some flex connector is loose. Could also be RAM going bad. Neither of those options are easy to deal with with on an iPod...

I learned as much after some light Googling. And, apparently, they've discontinued the Nano.

Oh well, it still plays music and otherwise functions as it's supposed to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQKZGziMOoI

lol what is this trash, is this supposed to entice people to subscribe to Apple Music?

don't all of the streaming services have exclusive content now?

ugh, is that st vincent as well?

lol that's Alison Brie