i never upgraded from sierra
― 龜, Friday, 28 September 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 September 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
i downloaded 2 days ago and it froze at 80% progress for 12 hours. Spend 5 hours at the apple store yesterday and had to wipe my drive and start clean... other than that it's nice enough so far.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Friday, 28 September 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
plz let us know how the sierra -> mojave ends up working out for you. I'm still on sierra and had pretty much intended to stay until my hardware dies
― Dan I., Friday, 28 September 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
No problem w mojave yet on my 2015 mbp
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 28 September 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
sierra->mojave is fine for me so far fwiw. i've been doing some pretty wacky unixy stuff so far this morning without problems, which has been a problem on previous upgrades.
the upgrade was smoothish. about half way through i got a message saying my disk could not be repaired and that the install would roll back to sierra. which seemed ominous. but it rebooted and then the installation continued fine. so i guess the error was a false alarm?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 September 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
i was only running high sierra for a month or so when i upgraded and everything is basically fine so the most noticeable change is that they seem to have knocked all the UI polish off their mature release and things are a little more hinky, which is not ideal
but maybe it will improve with minor updates so i can bask in it
― j., Friday, 28 September 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
I like dark mode idk
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 28 September 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
I want dark mode for preview tho
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 28 September 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
Dark mode makes sense for writing code, when you need the ability to distinguish text in lots of different colors. In every other context it's masturbatory, imo
― Dan I., Friday, 28 September 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
you got a problem w/ masturbation???
― j., Friday, 28 September 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
lol last year or so I decided I had had it with black terminal backgrounds and colorful syntax highlighting. Now I have a light background and a shades-of-grey color scheme.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 28 September 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
yeah it’s nice for writing in latex and I like to work in the dark so it’s nice on my eyes
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 28 September 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
i'm running mojave on a 2014 macbook pro retina and it's fine. useless update IMO, but fine.
― akm, Friday, 28 September 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
I like bright white. Always and 4ever.
― Jeff, Saturday, 29 September 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
i don't (and can't) have mojave but i love dark schemes, so much easier for my eyeballs
― gbx, Saturday, 29 September 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
I switched to dark mode on twitter and zing about two years ago and can’t imagine going back so yeah sucks my MacBook is too old for dark mode os-wide
― Clay, Saturday, 29 September 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
I bought a new phone - it's running 12.0. My old phone is running 12.0.1. What a complete clusterfuck of a switch over. Everything seems great until it isn't.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 October 2018 01:56 (five years ago) link
what went wrong? i'm due to do this in a few days
― Nhex, Thursday, 11 October 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
Elvis All you have to do is choose to restore an iCloud backup and iOS will download the update and then restore the backup
― calstars, Thursday, 11 October 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link
Or set it up as a new phone, update, then restore
― calstars, Thursday, 11 October 2018 02:58 (five years ago) link
Set up as new, nuke it, and restore is what I had to do. The installer still doesn't back out of this gracefully if your previous OS was newer.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 October 2018 06:05 (five years ago) link
Still not getting Shortcuts. I’m trying to set up something like « shuffle from downloaded songs on iPhone » but can’t figure it out
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 11 October 2018 06:27 (five years ago) link
There doesn’t seem to be an exact filter for that. But “Find Music Where” “Is not cloud item”|V“Play Music”“Shuffle songs”Seems to be doing the right thing.
― stet, Thursday, 11 October 2018 06:51 (five years ago) link
thanks, that seems to work!
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 11 October 2018 08:05 (five years ago) link
anybody having problems with itunes screen redraws after a mojave upgrade? if i delete several highlighted items in a playlist the new display of the playlist doesn't update all at once, only line-by-line as i scroll past now-deleted items.
― j., Friday, 12 October 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
YES. Had that happen to me last night.
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
like you delete an item and nothing changes then you click down and it's there twice until you click past it
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
I'm having that issue too. Already filed a bug report on it.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 October 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
Anyway, new phone issues sorted out. The Xs is damn impressive - loving the new camera.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 October 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
xp i could't find anyone complaining about it on the internet (elusive search terms) and then the bug report form was such a pain i just thought i might wait it out until they fix
― j., Friday, 12 October 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
apple music deleted all my downloaded music (70+ gb) off my phone without telling me. three years on and it's still a hulking piece of shit.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 14 October 2018 01:56 (five years ago) link
Had a similar experience awhile ago and decided to keep my iTunes lib for my genre of choice separate from my Spotify streaming for new crap and old bs that I don’t need to buy.
― calstars, Sunday, 14 October 2018 02:46 (five years ago) link
AA go to the TMBG poll thread and focus your thoughts about music there
― My Gig: The Thin Beast (sic), Sunday, 14 October 2018 03:23 (five years ago) link
on it
looks like i disconnected icloud when i was trying to fix my light globes, because the two are clearly and obviously related
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 14 October 2018 05:57 (five years ago) link
Found this cool trick for iPhones. You can set up an accessibility shortcut so that you turn the feature on and off. So for example - if you like to use the phone in greyscale most of the time (that’s me except when I’m working with photos) or you like to invert the colors - you can just toggle back and forth between that feature and the “regular” display by triple tapping the home button.
― calstars, Monday, 15 October 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
my dad is adamant that when he finished installing the new macbook os update apple prompted him to install mackeeper. i told him it almost certainly did not bc apple does not bundle third party pseudo-scammy programs with its os. am i wrong? is this something they're doing now?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
no way
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
Yeah, sounds like either he mistook some scammy pop-up ad for an Apple dialog box or his system is infected with malware
― Alba, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
just after i got my new mba i found that i was seemingly beset by warnings and popups and offers including ones that seemed to make mackeeper worth considering, and mackeeper itself
i think that died off once i got everything set up properly, maybe it takes the system protection thingy a little while to get up to speed with the to-the-moment state of scammy internet sites
― j., Tuesday, 16 October 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
very happy arq user here, but it's extremely fiddly to set up (and potentially expensive) if you're not already familiar with cloud services.
https://www.arqbackup.com/arqcloudbackup/ looks like an extremely nice simple alternative built on the same backup protocol, but with the backend bit taken care of. $6/month all in.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 26 October 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
posting on I HATE APPLE because it is 10-20x faster for me to recover a file via arq (from google nearline storage in my case, which is cheap because it's slow), than it is to recover it from time machine on a disk connected to my machine by a USB cable.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 26 October 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
siri on the watch is totally fucked. if it fires at all, which is like a third of the time, it sits there saying “hold on…” for several minutes
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 28 October 2018 10:26 (five years ago) link
generally speaking Siri is just not good. Apple are way behind Amazon and Google on this digital assistant thing (I hate all of them frankly but my son uses a google home for stuff and it's impressive, where if you ask siri the same things she doesn't know what the fuck you're talking about)
― akm, Sunday, 28 October 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
Just picked up an Xr and it’s pretty nice. Sweet spot between the too large max and Xs, which seemed too narrow somehow. The xr brings a bit of width. Also the red color is very cool looking!
― calstars, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
all of the currently available iPhones are too large
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
need an XE
― ||||||||, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
I got an XS Max when they came out. Picked up my kid's SE the other day, and felt wistful for a phone that doesn't pull my pants down when I put in my pocket.
― DJI, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
got the xs max and tbf i wish it was bigger
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
all of the currently available iPhones are too large2024: “we listened! new iphone se-r, starting at us$1900”
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link