I HATE APPLE

oooh boy this is a bad one

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/28/facetime-bug-hear-audio/

yep shut off FT last night on mine

https://1eu.funnyjunk.com/pictures/Defiant+flaky+future+donkey_7a1e5f_6935584.jpg

if only there was some way to tether your earpods to your phone, perhaps via some kind of wire

there isn't, with new apple phones, is the problem

lightning adapter though

that is far more bulky and inconvenient than a square of medical tape though

also it's one of the worst ux decisions in the history of man

yes but it’s possible, and apple even gave you a free one (until last year when their greed eclipsed the sun)

are you on BG’s side or Mr Tape Ear though

Mr Tape Ear Did Nothing Wrong

it's a good look!

wireless earpods stuck down with tape - a good look
wireless earpods - a bad look

are you on BG’s side or Mr Tape Ear though

mr tape ear 100%

Hate the cheesiness of the wireless sh1t but it’s super nice functionally

what a fragile piece of garbage this macbook pro is

just a few months after they replaced (under apple care) everything except the logic board and SSD because of a cracking flex cable in the monitor hinge, the touch ID reader stops working

i had better sell this stupid thing before the apple care is up, huh

just a horrible computer. still hate mine but im stuck w it.not one singular improvement over my old 2015 one that i can name.

agree

i still use my 2015 one for music and it works amazing. equally fast at processing large audio files. just needs a new battery and maybe some compressed air ...

the touch bar is the dumbest thing apples ever done.

yeah i fuck up constantly by accidentally tapping it

it sure is convenient for grabbing emoji though!

is the dell infinity edge display any good? it has a terrible name

i just disabled it so it only shows what was on the old one and added spacers to the edges where I kept hitting it accidentally.

im sure other computers are fine but im an apple guy for life despite my hate for this version.

every time i open Messages now my volume goes down to 50%! when i leave Messages it goes back up!

that's so no one can overhear your messages

checks out

my biggest annoyance with ios at the moment is the way it reverts to the music app constantly - eg i'm listening to a podcast, switch over to a youtube video or something and watch that to the end, then click the play button on my headphones again and instead of going back to where i left off in the podcast the music app fires up and starts playing the into to blur's 'girls and boys'

it didn't used to do this until a few ios revisions ago and it still drives me fucking nuts

in other news i got an 11" ipad pro and a pencil for photo-editing / drawing and it fkn rules

it's also just amazing for reading comics and i'm already guilty with the knowledge that it's gonna spend at least as much time showing me marvel unlimited as it does lightroom or procreate

too positive

the lust object thread is thataway

you're right, i am shamed

GAWD

so uh what are the best windows laptops : /

after 19 years (!) on apple laptops I'm not sure I could make the switch but I should at least consider the options

The MS Surface laptop is nice. My wife has one. The Dell XPS13s are pretty nice, esp. now that they moved the nostril can. If I was going to buy a new laptop, I think I’d do either one of the Razer ones. The stealth plus their external GPU enclosure is a pretty sweet combo.

Or just get the 15” Razer with the built-in GPU.

Dell xps is probably closest to the appple experience

yeah the new xps13 looks nice

My work surface 3 was the absolute worst computer I have ever owned, and I had an Apple Mac Centris 660av in the 90s. My Wife’s surface gave up on talking to the keyboard and is unrepairable. She’s going to replace it with a Lenovo or an HP.

lol the centris could not have been the worst!!!!

except for its storage space issues (which could have been avoided or mitigated with foresight) i do like my lenovo ideapad, despite having zero need to turn it on since i got a new mac.

the XPS13 and 15 are a beaut, and moving the webcam to the top p much makes it the perfect laptop imo. I've played w them a little bit too and they're real nice.

I use the XPS 13 at work, and it keeps taking ages to unlock. It’s got so bad, I have to carry it unlocked to meetings - otherwise I risk wasting 10 minutes waiting for it to unlock and not being able to access the relevant papers.

That...seems odd

My colleague thinks it could probably be fixed if we were allowed access to the full settings, but alas... IT support seems unable/uninterested in fixing it.

as an IT adminstrator the unlock issue is almost certainly a fault of your company's IT settings/policies and not the XPS 13 itself

how do I block twitter dot com on mac ? editing hosts doesn’t work ?

there's an app called Freedom, dunno if there's an easier way to do it

every single week apple music puts something called “group therapy” by “above & beyond” in my new releases, every single week i marked it as disliked, every single week it’s back there again. what the fuck.

My new music often thinks I am either:

a) a middle aged woman from Galway
a) a middle aged woman from Missouri who things thy are descended from someone from Galway.

good summary of the current hardware situation for switchers https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/guidemaster-the-best-windows-ultrabooks-you-can-buy-right-now/