I HATE APPLE

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

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

I think I have a very similar problem to yours. Will try this

lol terminal does not play well with mojave dark mode

OS 12 is good and I hate Apple slightly less right now

that said, I now get this frequent annoying error message telling me a calendar item response did not send, and I can't get rid of it

that happened to me once but i can't remember how i dealt w/it. sorry :(

Damn. This is the first time in my life I can recall a new Mac OS not running on my hardware. I have a Mac Mini from 2011 that runs like greased lightning (16GB RAM + SSD) and Mojave isn't supported. I was looking forward to Dark Mode..

really?? you have been a very faithful upgrade then

https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/09/macos-10-14-mojave-the-ars-technica-review/4/#h5

this guy says that UI animations (like clicking on a checkbox) have been dropped from high sierra to mojave, which seems to be true (maybe because it was too much hassle to replicate them under light mode / dark mode and with all new color accents?). but i liked those!!

fucking subpixel anti-aliasing removed, WTF

Got a new iphone, but my backup is encrypted and I can't remember the password, and even the password in my MacBook keychain is somehow not working. Had to buy their stupid iCloud storage plan and now it's taking hours and hours to back up.

fucking subpixel anti-aliasing removed, WTF

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 11:46 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I assume this is apple saying by a Retina Mac

It is - some bullshit statement from a developer about having to carry the screen pixel geometry up through multiple layers of abstraction being unworkable - except if you use a terminal command it’s right there still, for about 70% of text rendering.

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).

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, September 12, 2018 9:38 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mojave is the most useless OS update yet.

dark mode is idiotic. who likes this shit? turned that off right away.

urgh having a nightmare with Photos on iOS 12 - the picture library appearing in my Photo app now seem frozen - new shots taken will not be saved to the photo library and I can't delete any older pictures

I don’t understand people’s fascination with dark mode either. It always looks worse to me, less readable.

i dunno i like having a break from ALL THE LIGHTS but it's not consistent right now and there are some things like i dunno browser windows that are constantly full of non-darkened content

https://infinitediaries.net/os-x-choose-between-the-character-accents-popup-and-key-repeat-when-holding-down-a-key/

huh, maybe this was happening when i was running high sierra but i didn't notice it until mojave

what's the point of the key repeat rate and delay preferences if they are made to only apply to space, arrow, return keys etc?

Well space and return are often held down to control where text appears in e.g. a text document. And arrow keys make sense to keep going if you hold them down, whereas I can imagine that more people would like easy access to ü than wish to type uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu on the regular.

To be fair most of the people who type ü on the reg are using a keyboard layout that allows them to type it more quickly than holding the key down.

it breaks the USER EXPERIENCE of using a keyboard, for which keypress = type, key hold = tttttttttttttttttt, uh except for the modifier keys and

it seems punctuation still repeats, tho (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

look i just wanna be able to type a lotta letters in a row really fast a lot of the time okkkkkkk

ök

I never knew I needed dark mode until I was working in the studio.

Useful article on how to toggle it via keyboard: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/14/how-to-toggle-dark-mode-with-a-keyboard-shortcut-or-the-touch-bar

Love dark mode and it should only get better.

xxp well I suppose the real answer is convergence of the macOS and iOS UIs.

i am not like ú

i have REAL KEYS

i am in touch with my physicality

i am an embodied computer user with a connection to the wørld

elvis, it seems that solution doesn't quite work as-is on the full mojave release (i notice the names of the categories in automator hadn't caught up to 'quick actions' yet). the automator script needs to be added to accessibility to access 'system events'. but apparently giving it a global key shortcut is not enough to make the script executions truly global? because it behaves differently from within an accessibility-authorized app (i added the finder) and a non-authorized one (say, safari), from which it's forced to beg for separate access to 'system events'.

hm.

aha https://latenightsw.com/mojave-brings-in-big-security-changes/

still haven't upgrade because i fear APFS. is it all settled and good now?

If you have High Sierra and an SSD, you're already on it. Zero issues for me. However the almighty Disk Warrior doesn't speak APFS yet.

i never upgraded from sierra

i did sierra -> mojave last night. omnifocus required it and i haven't heard much for a while. i do wish they tested their software though.