I HATE APPLE

I bounce back and forth between Chrome and Firefox. Firefox and one of my CMS sites has a "handshake" problem that loops without end. Chrome gives me notifications from Hangouts, which my company uses as its "Slack."

They're both great and they both suck and they're both better than whatever shitty desktop Safari is trying to pull.

things increasingly don't support firefox, things like web skype and web zoom, probably a camera / mic thing.

i also have weird problems in firefox with london transport zoomable map and the three website, which just look like the text settings are all wrong.

i'm still a heavy Firefox user (Tree Style tabs for life) but still have to use Chrome for a lot of work stuff

I only use Safari and I think using another browser on Mac is kind of ridiculous tbqh

I have a lot of Chrome extensions unavailable on Safari that I use for work and some for fun. But yes, otherwise, Safari runs best.

Chrome is where I do google apps and a couple of other work things that don’t like safari. Safari for everything else.

I only use Safari and I think using another browser on Mac is kind of ridiculous tbqh

What on earth do you need to “sync”

History, open tabs

Safari syncs to iOS, and you can sync bookmarks and passwords to Chrome on Windows now (but not tabs/history)

the last thing i need is more unread tabs following me around!

I need a couple of slightly obscure Firefox feature for work: ability to install fake certificates in a sandboxes environment (not the keychain) and isolated containers not just “the browser and incognito mode”.

countless versions of Mac OS later, icons and files still appear on top of each other on the desktop

I thought that was a feature now.

Dammit I want a Mac Mini, but ya gotta keep it plugged in all the time, and I've already got backup battery (for Unverse gateway) hogging outlet in computer area--Mac Pro 13" has good battery by all reviews I've seen, but not so many ports as mini of course---how *is* this Pro overall (Mac Pro 13" w M1)? Good keyboard now? What is the best m1 Mac, in yall's experience?

what am i missing. if you want a mac mini get one of these for $3?

https://smile.amazon.com/GE-Adapter-Grounded-Outlets-52203/dp/B00006IBFC

keyboard on the new macbooks (since 2019 or whenever they fixed it) is not prone to catostrophic failure. some people actively like it. i don't, but it's fine.

there is no reason to get the current M1 macbook pro instead of a macbook air IMO. they are functionally identical, but the pro can eke out a few % of performance if you're willing to live with the fan noise (and the implications of moving parts for the longevity of the laptop).

Moving parts hisssss

xxp so let me put on my Sherlock hat: by linking this image, you are signalling that, for a pittance, I could have my mac mini, my back-up battery for my mac mini, and and my aforementioned back-up battery for my Uverse gateway all in a row, triplets---yes?
Thanks for revelation re pro vs. air---what don't you like about the improved keyboards though---?

Come to think of it, the power cable of the gateway plugs into the back-up battery---if the mac mini follows suit, I would only need two of those outlets in the wall tap adapter you linked--or if it uses a back-up of a different design, I'd still have the third outlet, apparently.

(One for the mini, one for its back-up, one for the gateway->backup)

i dunno. it sounds like you need more outlets. there are many products that will give you more outlets.

So tired of what a pain lightning is for audio. For a while I had a dragonfly DAC into a USB to lightning adapter into my iphone so I could use proper good quality headphones, an extremely awkward setup. The apple-branded usb-to-lightning adapter crapped out after a year and I gave up on that. I now finally have a set of airpods (partly also for use as a work-from-home headset), in the "fuck you Apple, take more of my money!" department.

Big Sur janky af on my old intel beast. Wish I had never upgraded. Restart seems to take at least twice as long as before and there’s a 5 second hang when the desktop appears. Spotlight takes a few moments on startup too before it provides results

https://i.imgur.com/9CUCD3B.jpg
Go fucjk yourself Steve cook

Our older MacBook Air, I think a 2011, is more or less in modest shape, for its age, except the local shop has told me the SMC chip has inexplicably failed. That means I can literally never turn it off or let its batteries run out, otherwise it will not turn on, and I have to open it up, manually disconnect the battery and force it to restart. And it will apparently restart, if needed. I just can't ever shut it down or let it drain. As far as my local shop knows, there is no repair, either.

Airpods are also ugly, I realized. They look stupid on me.

Ha, I got the Turn It Down notification too, but that was after running for several hours to a Bluetooth speaker. It seemed to think that was a headphone connection, and assessed the exposure accordingly (the volume on the phone was likely close to max, but just background level on the speaker).

Airpods are also ugly, I realized. They look stupid on me.

I took a zoom deposition wearing them. I needed some sort of headset setup to block out kid noise.

I'm almost the opposite. I prefer my big headphones, but I feel like I'm cos-playing Roger Waters during these meetings with them on.

I think any kind of headset looks regrettably dumb on a video call, tbh. Airpods just happen to look like some kind of futuristic earrings that would be worn by a digeridoo guy.

Maybe I need to readjust my attitude about this.

https://i.imgur.com/pIMw2TL.jpg

What?

Rosetta May Be Removed From M1 Macs in Some Regions on macOS 11.3

Does Google Drive work well on Mac Pro/Mii M1? On iPad Pro? (I know that's not M1)(yet?)

Opps, meant Mac Pro and "Mini* w M1. Esp. concerned w Docs, gmail, Blogger apps.

https://i.imgur.com/EdTTxwH.jpg

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

Hows the ipod, Jay?

Verifying "Microsoft Excel"

^otm this sucks

Love the scare quotes. "Microsoft Excel" is it? We'll see about that.

Verify deez nuts

https://i.imgur.com/GnZG6PO.jpg

Adobe have added an AI-driven super-resolution feature to Camera Raw (Photoshop only atm), where you can up-scale a RAW/DNG image and it's supposedly as good as shooting at that resolution in the first place. Benefits over standard interpolation seem marginal, but anyway... Trying this on a 51MP image (->204MP) on my 2014 MBP took best part of 13min. It's super-GPU intensive and the fans were screaming. Tried the same operation on the same image on my daughter's 2020 M1 MBA. 15 seconds.

And then she spent all day playing Roblox.

Keep your fscking phone in your pocket and just shoot in medium format if you’re so concerned about photo quality ffs

Are you talking to me?

Yes you, “Michael Jones,” and billions of others too

Easel and full oil painting rig or gtfo

Ok.

My point, if I had one, was just to anecdotally confirm how ridiculously quick the M1 is with Apple Silicon software vs older gen machines (or maybe just how sluggish my old MBP now is). Not really about super-res at all (which might be handy for older pics, I guess).