I HATE APPLE

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/

If they cost as much as an Air then what’s the point

better keyboards

They’re faster, the keyboards work, the batteries last longer, they run an operating system that isn’t abandonware, etc.

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

you must have done something wrong because this will work on any computer, it changes how the computer interacts with the network. maybe file didn't save?

Question: are airpods total garbage? I want some wireless headphones and don't want to spend $300 on them.

yeah it worked after I restarted

I love mine fwiw xp

My airpods work fine they’re not entirely seamless but they work and Apple earbuds are the only ones that have ever been comfortable in my ears

Airpods as the budget option wow.

airpods aren’t perfect but they’re one of the best things apple has done in the past five years

low bar

exactly

give me proper IEM Airpods and i'm sold. I've been using the wired Apple ones for 10 years and they're pretty good.

xp Nice guide to Ultrabooks. I am investing in a nicer laptop when my clunky Acer bites it. I like my missus's MacBook Air... when I'm not using it.

I'm dual booting Linux and Windows for now. Years ago there was an ok market for bare laptop cases so you could put in whatever you want. But I came up just about empty searching for these yesterday.

Is there anything ultrabook quality available without a disk/OS at least?

xp There are surprisingly decent Bluetooth earbuds around for around $50, if you don't mind a wire connecting them, sitting on the back of your neck

I still use 3.5mm jack stuff, but I find Bluetooth buds less alien looking than the earpods. There's single bud stuff too, though bad for music of course

lmao

Two years ago, Desmond Hughes heard so many of his favorite podcasters extolling AirPods, Apple’s tiny, futuristic $170 wireless headphones, that he decided they were worth the splurge. He quickly became a convert.

Hughes is still listening to podcasters talk about their AirPods, but now they’re complaining. The battery can no longer hold a charge, they say, rendering them functionally useless. Apple bloggers agree: “AirPods are starting to show their age for early adopters,” Zac Hall, an editor at 9to5Mac, wrote in a post in January, detailing how he frequently hears a low-battery warning in his AirPods now. Earlier this month, Apple Insider tested a pair of AirPods purchased in 2016 against a pair from 2018, and found that the older pair died after two hours and 16 minutes. “That’s less than half the stated battery life for a new pair,” the writer William Gallagher concluded.

Hughes, who is 35 and lives in Newport News, Virginia, has noticed a similar thing about his own set: At first, their charge lasted five hours, but now they sometimes last only half an hour. He frequently listens to one while charging the other—not optimal conditions for expensive headphones. He’s now gearing up to plunk down more money on another pair. “I just wish they would increase the battery life,” he told me.

oh yikes! I guess that's going to happen if they are your all-purpose thing! Battery tech was enough of a reason to leave the headphone jack alone.

Every time something new gets batteries we get a new story about how battery life degrades after many charging cycles.

Also “plunk”

the easy way around battery degradation is by making them replaceable

you got it. That's my top criteria for phones now. My last one was tricky... my current one, there's not even visible screws on the casing.

podcasts are famously demanding of high-fidelity reproduction, who can fault this guy for plunking down $340 on earpods with no guarantee the second set's batteries will las any longer than the first's

Replacing the EarPods that you bought because of podcasts about EarPods with new EarPods to listen to podcasts about EarPods on. We’ve all been there.

from the same article quoted above:

Hughes told me that he and his girlfriend upgrade their iPhones every two years, as they do their iPad. “I guess we don’t keep our technology super long,” he told me. And why should he? Every few months, new tech products come out boasting substantial updates and better batteries. A German environmental agency found that the proportion of products sold to replace a defective appliance grew from 3.5 percent in 2004 to 8.3 percent in 2012.

These people are the worst

waht is all this extraneous shit

wow, this is all spectacular garbage

uh I guess hopefully the tv service is better than Directv Now?

i've got nothing here

unveiling your original video content with a bunch of celebrities, none of who are under the age of 40, is a thing

I HATE APPLE

just design a better laptop keyboard ffs

ooh wait we've got a 39 year old on the stage and it's Jason Momoa

lol

Did I notice Louis Ck in the pic onscreen?

Siri, show me dystopic 'happiness'

https://photos.reportinglive.com/p/2019-03-25/f1553538462.jpg

Tim Cook says Apple has one more remarkable story to share.

"The Mueller report!"

Is that big bird presenting on stage? Damn

Apple credit card kind of feels like a big deal

I refuse to obtain any kind of credit card no matter the points or cash back involved, because I am not a sucker