I HATE APPLE

WHAT DID HE EVER DO TO YOU??????????

All too true.

Apple replaced my new iBook's motherboard while I was in Japan. That's hundreds of dollars worth, at no charge to me. Of course, it shouldn't have failed within six months in the first place...

That's why they charge you double upfront!

Because I don't believe in a company making you pay for a warantee that should be offered for free upfront. I was under the impression that a one-year warantee meant that if something goes wrong in the first year, they actually fix the thing, not put you on the phone with several douchebags who are trying to sell you additional warantees.

Shit, when the first warantee doesn't seem to work, why would I want to buy another one?

But it does sound like you have a problem with your serial number, Jay.

tho when i was waiting there, i did see todd oldham.

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.

Settings >> Accessibility >> Display & Text Size >> Reduce Transparency

This will get rid of the glass, turning the folder and notification backgrounds to black.

lest we forget

Frame of preference: A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004

When we first made an apple/itunes account my wife and I shared an account. At this point it would be too difficult to split it but it leads to confusion sometimes when we get new phones or things update.

> Frame of preference: A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004

"PowerBook G4 photo by Ashley Pomeroy"... worlds collide.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrossStitch/comments/95b3m8/fo_classic_mac_control_panel_pixel_art_stitched/

wonderful!

This is all hearsay, but supposedly this article got a tremendous amount of attention inside Apple design labs:

"VISUAL ELEMENTS OF SUBJECTIVE PREFERENCE MODULATE AMYGDALA ACTIVATION"
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4024389🕸/

apparently it was popular enough that it's the reason why OS 26 looks the way it does.

If they're taking design cues from this

This is all hearsay, but supposedly this article got a tremendous amount of attention inside Apple design labs:

"VISUAL ELEMENTS OF SUBJECTIVE PREFERENCE MODULATE AMYGDALA ACTIVATION"
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4024389🕸/

apparently it was popular enough that it's the reason why OS 26 looks the way it does.

Real bad sign if taste is no longer the arbiter

Still catches me off guard that for a premium brand Apple's customer service ranges between bad and actively hostile. Because what are you going to do otherwise, buy a Windows monstrosity?

Generally fine with os26 but what the hell @ the changes to bookmarks/history in Safari? As well as it being bullshit logic that history is a subset of bookmarks, it can now take seven (!) taps to access a link from history if the last bookmark you used was in a nested folder. Yes I know you can use autocomplete in the url bar but sometimes you need to see the list

Moving from an SE3 to a 17 is quite a shock - mostly positive, although I wish it was very slightly smaller so I could use it one handed more easily.

I finally upgraded to a new phone 17 pro and everything went smoothly except, of course, Music.

I did a device-to-device transfer at the store and it maintained my Music library just fine. However, the next time I connected the phone to my laptop/external drive with my music catalog to manually transfer new albums (I don't used the automatic sync since my library is bigger than the phone's storage), it wiped the entire library and copied over the new albums. Annoying, but I dealt with this the last time I upgraded and I'll just have to slowly repopulate it over time.

So I set to transfer about 200 albums and, oops, about 30% of them transferred over with completely wrong artwork. I started manually deleting and re-adding those albums, one by one, onto the iPhone and at first it worked just fine. But on about the fifth one, it copied over with the wrong artwork. And now, every single album I try to manually add shows up with the exact same incorrect artwork. I've deleted and retransferred them about 12 times, still the same problem. Rebooted the laptop, the phone, etc etc - still the same issue. So currently my Music library has about 60% of the music with the correct art, 20% with the wrong art of various covers and 20% of different albums all with the Atomic Rooster Death Walks Behind You cover, none of which are actually that album.

I get that Apple really, really wants you to just subscribe to Apple Music and stream everything but, uh, no. I prefer to manually manage what I have on my iPhone. So far it appears that my only possible solution is to completely erase my iPhone and restore a backup from the cloud, but that isn't exactly ideal and a ridiculous solution.

Sigh... I hate Apple.

ok it's objectively hilarious that the guy who pushed through the liquid glass update is now leaving for facebook

That tracks. I hate the glass shit, the interface was approaching a (literal) platonic ideal and their decision was to shit liquid all over it and drain the battery with gimmicky effects which hinder usability.

I don't know if this has been covered (it's a big thread) or if I just have a weird setting on one device but...
Using Music on my laptop, my playlists that begin with numbers and symbols appear at the top, before 'a'. I'm a slovenly & ad hoc organiser so I will just call something **party if I want it to sit high.
Using Music on my phone, playlists that begin with numbers appear after 'z'; symbols are not honoured so **party will appear at 'p'.
It's nothing major, but an irritation and amateurish.

Also otm liquid shit

Still haven't upgraded. Maybe now I'll be able dodge liquid glass completely

i like the liquid glass, at least it’s something different ffs

Apple Music on a Mac now has a queue reordering bug that used to exist in Apple Podcasts on an iPhone and was fixed there maybe a year ago.

question for y’all

i have my macbook pro mid-2015 backed up on an external hd. the screen just ate shit but i was anticipating this. a repair shop recommended buying a refurbished macbook rather than paying to repair, and i agree.

1. if i get a refurbed book that’s more recent, like 2019, will that cause issues with my back up since it’s older? should i just get a refurbed mid-2015 to be safe?

2. is macsales.com a reputable vendor? what other vendors are good?

looking to spend $200-400 but could be talked up somewhat if there’s considerations i’m unaware of

macsales.com is legit but i dunno if i'd recommend a 10 year old laptop running on an intel chip at this point

What kind of backup is it? Time Machine, Disk Image or just files?

Your old backup should be fine, some apps might not work or need replacing with apple silicon versions. However I’d recommend doing a clean install, installing apps from scratch and pulling files across rather than restoring from Time Machine or an image, or just doing Apple’s new computer transfer thing. Last time I upgraded I realised how much accumulated useless cruft it was pulling across.

I would hope that for $400 you could get an M1 Macbook Air (you can buy them new for like $600 at Walmart still, I think).

screen’s too small

xp at Ed: I have the Time Machine backup I’m pretty sure. So yeah I could manually add things. What I’m worried about most is my Garage Band files, I’m in the middle of making a record and I need them to work and be just like they were before

Restore from Time Machine might’ve your best bet as I’m not sure where garage band stores everything. Less worried about the files themselves but any preferences, virtual instruments, plugins you might be using. Plugins is the dicey one as that is where you might find some things that won’t work on apple silicon.

It’s going to come down to how vanilla your garage band setup is.

Yeah it’s very primitive. I get the sounds I want outside of garageband and just use the interface to multitrack, maybe add some reverb occasionally to make things sit right. I want to learn more about DAWs and graduate to something better but I need to finish this record first. That’s why I’m inclined to buy a cheap refurb from similar era … maybe later next year I can really upgrade to something nicer

Another strategy might be to upgrade your dying MBP to the newest OS it can run, refresh your backup, then get the last generation of Intel based MBP, install the same OS generation and migrate your backup to it, then upgrade the OS as far as that machine will go. Then when the time comes to get an M1/M2 or whatever, the gulf between the OS versions is small and the risk of curveballs is minimised.
This assumes you can plug a screen into your current machine of course.

I'd plug your computer into an external monitor and finish your album.

Than buy a used/refurbed M1 at the very least.

You could possibly just book the old one into disk mode and use migration assistant, too

boot the old one, that is. boot the book.

thanks for the tips y’all

Finally installed iOS 26, and it's worse than I thought. Imagine The Meetings that resulted in a company of extremely talented designers shipping this.

lol

https://bsky.app/profile/lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com/post/3madexfxyek2a

lmao

In iOS Safari, having the little x in the search bar to delete text right next to a larger x that closes the entire URL/search bar is A+ design.

my personal bugaboo is switching between the emoji text bar and the messages text bar or trying to figure out which on you're in

are we talking about iphones now?

thing that drives me crazy is i used to love swiping up to access the control screen to use flashlight. now when i swipe up i get a useless "NOW PLAYING" screen, whether or not there's anything playing on my phone. totally useless extra step added every time i want to use flashlight. drives me insane

there's so much weird swipey fuckery on these things, it's so fucking annoying. i will click on the SPOTIFY button to access spotify, and if there's some kind of emergency situation where i need to pause the music ASAP, there's control buttons on the lock screen. two options for play and pause is sufficient. and then of course there's the "App Library," which i guess is like, what if we take your thoughtfully designed home screen and we randomly scrambled all your apps, and added extra ones that you don't want, into multiple groupings with no apparent logic apart from making the screen look like a jumbled useless mess

I agree that the swiping has gotten complicated. Swipe from top right of lock screen to access control panel, and then if it's on the now playing screen, click the heart on the right side for control panel.

Really wish they would release a retro click wheel ipod with massive storage.

i just got a new iphone and was kinda excited about the new button on the top that you can assign to anything (I made it a shazam buttom) and the camera control button/fader on the bottom but...i've accidently clicked on the shazam button a few times now and it does occur to me Apple has a LOOOOOOONG history of going out of their way to NOT have extra buttons, even when they're useful. It's like, core apple philosophy.

the UI change that kills me is you now have to click more to see all the safari tabs. that's weird.

the UI change that kills me is you now have to click more to see all the safari tabs. that's weird.

Settings - Apps - Safari - Tabs and change from new "Compact" default.

Accessing history is still infuriatingly buried if you're in your bookmarks though.

Ever since I was little I’ve loved buttons. I hate the continued effort to do away with them. I want knobs and dials, damn it.

have they done away with the home button all iphones now? loathe to think of what i’ll do if my se ever dies, which btw is way too big already imo

it’s all been downhill since 5s honestly

Settings - Apps - Safari - Tabs and change from new "Compact" default.

Thank you! This was annoying me too.

I was resistant to gestures at first, but swiping up to go home is so much better than having to use a button. not to mention having to double-click home to get to the task management thing. I hate using legacy iOS devices because of it.

hard disagree

Oh thanks. To be fair I hadn’t bothered actually thinking about a fix.

I was resistant to gestures at first, but swiping up to go home is so much better than having to use a button. not to mention having to double-click home to get to the task management thing. I hate using legacy iOS devices because of it.

I was similarly resistant, but finally updated from an SE to iPhone 17 this year, and I realized within a couple of days how much better the "new" system is.

17 is way too big

Is it just me or is the ipad always an afterthought in terms of bug-fixing priorities?