I HATE APPLE

My tech experience with Apple has been sensational. A friend called me today to tell me that his mini iPod was replaced in less than five business days, and he also got the new generation mini in place of his old one that had died. No charge.

I've dealt with Dell and Gateway and their CSRs are no better than Apple's. HPs can blow me, they've sucked.

the desktop I have at work running XP has been up and alive for 2 years with barely any reboots. It does everything I want it to do, does it quickly, and I can navigate painlessly without ever touching the mouse if I feel like it.

I was raised on Apple and my first job was DTP on a Mac, followed by audio editing on a Mac, more DTP, and so on. OS 7+ had more than its share of problems and stupid quirks but the hardware was rock solid and at least its behavior was predictable.

Since getting my latest-edition powerbook I've put it through little more than I ever tried to do with my old OS

...OS

My old Quadra used to have a TV Tuner in it and be able to do image captures from live cable broadcasts, then I could import them into my cheap, incredibly easy to use paint program and do whatever with them. I believe it cost approximately half of what my laptop did! My laptop lets me chat and surf the internet. And rip CDs.

Well today it decided it wasn't going to wake up again, ever, as I'm being greeted with a totally white screen.

What's funny is that like doing searches on my own to try to figure out wtf this computer is doing right now (I mean not even the sad face x-eye Mac or the question mark Mac! NOTHING AT ALL! WHITE SCREEN! I know how to handle the other things!), everyone who is reporting similar issues to me is like bitching about how they have all this important blah blah blah they were doing with the Mac prior hand. Is it that no one who has this failure who is only using their Mac for chat, porn, and MP3s can be bothered to get in on the discussions, or is it because they don't die if that's all you use it for? Because yeah, it seems like my sleep problem increases tenfold whenever I've been using my iBook more for writing or photo work. If all I've done on the damn thing is use iChat for two weeks, no problems whatsoever with starting it up, back when it, uh, started up.

What does this imply??? Is there like some inherent instability in the majority of the "native" programs that come bundled with OSX or is this just really fucked up coincidence?

Also it seems that this particular issue with the iBook G3 was so bad they threw the whole "your warranty is expired, give us $500" shenanigans out the window, and searching on this same issue with "Powerbook" has not given me the same results--ARE IBOOKS PIECES OF SHIT? wtf?

*with the exception of my ancient PowerMac that I had when I was 14-15-16, which only died because my sister is a dick.

I am pretty close to deciding to become the female Punisher, except murdering computer firms, instead of bad guys.

And then kind of ran away????

That was pretty funny.

If Apple store in Clarendon cannot do anything for me worthwhile like, I will be coming back up to NYC and hitting u up on the favor, though. I like desperately, desperately need this to work ASAP.

Graphics are nonsense; I had that system and just customized the entire thing with graphics of my choice. Of my choice, since I was like 14 at the time, was like a bunch of lame ass Monty Python cartoons and/or Madonna album covers but what the fuck ever.

You know what else? This lamp-shaped iMac is stupid. There's no reason the screen needs to be this adjustable, and in fact with an LCD screen that has color-shifting problems, it's best if it doesn't move at all. It's only to make the computer more anthropomorphic, more... cute. So people will fall in love with the computer like it's a kitten. Crafty to the point of being kinda evil.

I have thought, on a few occasions, that OS7/8/9's desktop was more customizable than OSX's.

Maybe they are trying too hard to make things look pretty or cute and not spending enough time on making things sensible and working, anymore.

When I've been put off the G5 iMac as my next desktop computer because I hear too many stories about the power supply overheating thanks to them shoving everything in a thin white IKEA slab, it's time to reconsider the role "award-winning design" plays in your product development.

I kind of hate the OS X desktop. I have a menu bar, and a hard drive icon. I don't want a fucking DOCK, I never asked for a fucking DOCK, the whole rest of the computing world gets by without a DOCK. take that shit away and let me pick my own fonts. Dickholes.

In an office where multiple people are using the same computer and there's limited desk space the lamp iMacs have been terrific.

Hold down the trackpad button on startup.

I will be at a loss forever, though, as to why pressing F12 (the eject button) worked to eject The Marriage of Maria Braun not ten minutes earlier, but refused to work just now.

Any suggestions on the other stuff, besides setting the thing on fire?

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Font management/selection/preview is atrocious in OS X. I got Suitcase but all that does is move fonts into and out of your Font folder, rather than you going and doing it yourself. Uh alright thanks I guess.

You know what I've never understood about computers? Why should anyone have to "save" anything, ever? Why isn't it just all on there all the time? I spent 3 hours working on some document, you tool, you think I don't want to "save" it? I mean really now.

xpost: you could try shooting it.

Download Yasu, let it run everything.

http://www.laptops4me.com/images/pict/SNY-TR3AP1_LG.jpg

And yeah, Tracer, I'm kind of hoping that this is a display issue somehow, not a computer-itself issue, but everything I'm reading indicates this is not the case. :(

I didn't notice the all-white screen hassle upthread. Did you try booting into open firmware and reseting the NVRAM?

(cmd-opt-o-f on bootup, then type "reset-nvram" "set-defaults" "reset-all" )

so I can just walk into the apple store with this thing and someone will help me out?

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tracer otm. i often have totally differing degrees of success w/customer service if i just take a different approach.

Infuse absolutely rules. You need the pro subscription for Dolby Atmos decoding I think. Very much worth an annual fee to me.

I imagine there's not an LG client.

I'm kind of annoyed at Plexamp for just not working anymore for me outside my local network but that's another thread probably.

did you switch ISPs, or did your ISP switch to using carrier grade NAT? that'd do it. there are some ways around it.

hgnghgghghhhhhhhghhh

Isn’t that a plex choice and issue and not an apple one?

mostly? but neither of them told me the ramifications of updating and it's apple who never ever lets anyone downgrade

yeah, sucks all around. sounds like Plex made a breaking change to their client software that didn't let it work with older server versions, Apple aggressively wants you to keep your apps up to date, mostly with good reasons, and nobody wants to support old versions of software forever

OK, I really fucking hate Apple suddenly.

Last night I installed the latest Sequoia update, 15.4.1, and now all of a sudden metadata on streaming radio stations doesn't work. I click on WFMU and it shows the station but not the song currently playing. I can click the Favorite star next to the station name and metadata suddenly shows up, but it doesn't update dynamically. If I click away to a different station, no metadata. If I click back to WFMU, metadata is gone and I have to click the star again.

I just got off a tech support call and they said they're phasing out support for metadata on iHeartRadio stations. I said "I don't use iHeartRadio" and he said that was the backend for all internet radio where you get there initially via "Open Stream URL." This is to get people to subscribe to Apple Music and access their internet radio stations that way -- metadata will still be supported there.

So, sorry if this has been covered before, but can the hivemind direct me to their preferred music apps for the Mac? I have an 18,000 track library and a collection of ~40 internet radio stations that I keep up with.

Sorry when you say you “click on WFMU” - are you doing this inside Apple Music?

Yes. I have a bunch of internet radio stations in the desktop Music app that I've accessed via "Open Stream URL" under File, and gathered together in a My Radio playlist. No Apple Music subscription required.

I'm still running Monterey because I'm afraid of losing a whole bunch of software that I regularly use. I may soon have to upgrade to OS...more and more sites are no longer supported by my outdated versions of Chrome and Safari (the best I can run on Monterey) and I can't even buy tickets on my computer anymore, I have to use my phone which is extremely bad with high demand shows. (I already lost out on great seats to at least two shows due to the awkwardness of trying to grab them on the phone.)

*upgrade the OS

WmC it’s going to become more difficult to access IP radio and the metadata that goes with it by methods like this, but that’s going to be an iHeart decision I think - they want you to use their app. I don’t know for sure but it’s likely they’ve done a deal with Apple where if someone accesses iHeart stations via a paid subscription to Apple then you also get the metadata. Either way, the old “open a URL” method - whether via Apple Music or some other way - is going to work less and less.

boooooo

yeah I kind of wonder if that has anything to do with Apple or if Clearchannel's own app doesn't support older macOS, so they're still letting the metadata slip through on platforms their app doesn't support

birdistheword have you tried Firefox? Seems to receive updates on older systems still.

I have not! I will give it a try - thanks matt!

I recommend the “Headphone Accommodations” setting

The move circles in the Fitness app don't take cycling into account!

Okay, if I bike uphill slowly enough it thinks I'm walking ...

What would be nice is multiple instances of music apps. Like I’m in the middle of a long playlist but I want to quickly listen to this other unrelated song but not lose my place

They should also put out an e-ink iPad

I totally agree with the playlist thing. I especially hate if I accidentally click on sample .wav or whatever and it stops the music to play it, as well as copying a hi hat sound etc to my apple music library on all devices lol.

e-ink cannot refresh / be a touch screen quick enough for that kind of thing to work. ever use a touch screen eink kindle? good enough for flipping pages only really. maybe they're alot better now though. I'm all in favor of a return to black and white screens for many tasks though.