I HATE APPLE

Out of all of them, The Man And The Machine documentary is the one that's the most accurate. Fearsome cult-leader asshole.

No, no, Walter Isaacson said he was lovely, with just a few quirks because he knew better than those other dunderheads.

I’m not sure if this is Apple or LinkedIn doing this but something has populated my iCal with the birthdays of everyone I’ve ever worked or done business with. The value to me of knowing treat the AP clerk at a company I worked at 5 years ago is 36 tomorrow is minimal.

Happy birthday Geoff Hurd.

yesterday i got into my parents' car for the first time in two years and it immediately started playing my current Apple Music track on the car speakers without any intervention from me whatsoever

Yah the birthdays thing has bugged me for years. I’ve read countless forum posts about how to fix it and nothing works for me.

where do it come from tho!?

no idea. thought maybe it was a facebook or google sync thing, tried a bunch of stuff with those, some worked for a minute but would always come back

A pop up that says "A new iOS update is now available. Please update from the iOS 12 beta" every minute or so – and gives you no way to update. ARRGH

Latest music app no longer allows you to move songs around ona shuffled playlist, or hit “play next” to insert a song into the queue? 😡

I seem to still be able to do that.

Ffm!!

can’t wait for apple’s netflix clone to be full of average content and have a clunky/buggy ui that they don’t fix until 2021

Hope they update the SE with oled

Or at least start making phones that you can use with one hand again

The current X is very usabywitb one hand.

Hoping that wasn't deliberate.

lol

hi silby! I never left, I’m a terrible lurker

I seem to still be able to do that.

https://i.imgur.com/y63VZ5x.png

phone got stolen over the weekend and had to buy a new one yesterday

oh look today is the new iPhone announcement and price drop

did you buy from apple? they usually do like two week's refund/swap on new product announcements iirc?

verizon u_u

Not that this is news but

Me: Hey Apple, three movies I bought disappeared from my iTunes library.
Apple: Oh yes, those are not available anymore. Thank you for buying them. Here are two movie rentals on us!
Me: Wait... WHAT?? @tim_cook when did this become acceptable? pic.twitter.com/dHJ0wMSQH9

— Anders G da Silva (@drandersgs) September 10, 2018

xp gbx, I'm pretty sure carriers like Verizon are required to take returns for 14 days.

For real? I'm gonna have to look into this

Folks, stuff disappears from iTunes, etc. all the time for any reason you can think of. For example, a band I was in pulled everything offline because we got into a dumb fight - no strategy about leasing, non-ownership, etc. just old fashioned creative differences.

I know I keep shouting about this, but back *everything* up. Make a copy of it and put it in a different place for when your house eventually burns down or floods out.

Sure, good advice, but even better would be if apple stopped saying "buy" or "purchase" for media that was really just being rented.

the built-in weather app's watch complication is fundamentally broken, and the best advice i can find is to factory reset the whole watch. utterly fucked.

somehow checking 'show apple music' in iTunes wiped out a year's worth of "loved" settings on the songs in my library. oh boy

for a three year old service that is appalling

No more model for sale with a headphone jack, so I guess the 6s is my last iphone, unless I decide it's worth it to spring for a nice lightning DAC and to deal with the bulk (their adapter sucks).

There were rumors last week that this newest jumbo iphone would be able to run iPad apps - anyone know if that’s so?

(A lot of the most powerful music-making apps are iPad only)

Trying to back up all the photos from my wife's iphone has reminded me how unbelievably infuriatingly stupid and hateful the entire process is. I don't know what's on the phone, what's in the cloud, can't easily get shit off of the cloud, there are tons of places where it feels like one wrong click or ambiguous choice will delete all of the photos on icloud. Fuck apple and this whole user hostile pile of shit

whew okay just had to get that out

It’s legit, everything about dealing with photos just sucks

What I've found helpful for figuring out what is/isn't in the cloud is to create a smart album in Photos with the following one-line property:

Match the following condition: Photo - is - unable to upload to iCloud Photo Library

that album will contain everything that's on your phone and not on the cloud. It's saved me tremendous headache.

I’m still irrationally Cloud-resistant. All my photos are in my Phone and, every few months, I’ll connect to my Mac, open Lightroom and import everything “new” it sees on the attached device. Then I filter by metadata in Lightroom and junk anything that’s just something I took with a proper camera and moved to the phone (I.e., photos which exist elsewhere in the catalog). Then I’ll gradually wipe out chunks of the Camera Roll chronologically until I have enough space for a few more months.

I run iTunes backups too but the one and only time I did this to the Cloud (for my elder daughter’s 4s) I couldn’t restore it to her new 5s. So sod that.

can't easily get shit off of the cloud
or a blanket

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/12/apple_film_rights/

Last week, I accidentally turned off iCLoud in Photos on Mac. When I turned it back on all my photos since July had disappeared from the library (although they still appear on my phone) and Photos on Mac now tells me it's supposedly uploading 70 GB worth of pictures (at a snail pace from what I can tell).

Match the following condition: Photo - is - unable to upload to iCloud Photo Library

How do you do this? I can't figure it out on my phone. Do you mean in Photos for Mac? If so, how can it see photos that are by definition only on the phone?

I do roughly what Michael does too. I've no idea how using photos in the cloud would work when you've got shedloads of them (I'm not paying any more monthly subscriptions, thanks very much)

Is there no way to turn off the plug in noise on the latest Mac book pros? Gloink very damn time and then some other times for no reason at all. It doesn’t respect the volume control.

Gloink!

No idea sorry

what i do:

- use lightroom to organize my photos on my mac. the lightroom library on my mac is the "master" library.
- photos get there from my actual camera from an SD card
- they get there from my iphone using the ios dropbox app's "camera upload" feature
- i do have a shared album on google photos with mah wahf. i want a copy of everything she uploads to be in my master library on my mac, so i download the whole album (as a zip, through the google photos web interface), then use a program called gemini to detect and delete duplicates (i.e. photos i uploaded), then i import what's left into lightroom. google photos could make this easier by providing "smart albums" or something, or they could make this impossible by getting rid of the "download albums" button.
- 2018 am i right?!

Is there no way to turn off the plug in noise on the latest Mac book pros? Gloink very damn time and then some other times for no reason at all. It doesn’t respect the volume control.

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, September 13, 2018 9:27 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's a separate volume control ("alerts") for system sounds in the sounds preference pane. try that?

Gloink - still there

gloink very damn time