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.

how do you back up your photos tracer?

I have enough room on my mac, if they’re not there already. I just need to figure out if the actual photos are on my computer. I don’t want to move them off of my mac or change the location of the library.

I just want to plug in an external hard drive, dump the photos from my mac to the external, then unplug it and hide it somewhere that I will forget about in a month. I’m just paranoid that the real photos aren’t on my computer anymore. This really shouldn’t be that hard to figure out!

with time machine and backblaze

xpost

my photos library lives on an external HD which gets backed up to another HD and BB

it used to just be BB but i recently had to restore from BB and found it such a ball-ache that it’s worth it to me to have the physical backup as well

anyway i’m still strictly a “dump my phone photos to my computer every so often” guy

I have enough room on my mac, if they’re not there already. I just need to figure out if the actual photos are on my computer. I don’t want to move them off of my mac or change the location of the library.

I just want to plug in an external hard drive, dump the photos from my mac to the external, then unplug it and hide it somewhere that I will forget about in a month. I’m just paranoid that the real photos aren’t on my computer anymore. This really shouldn’t be that hard to figure out!

― Cow_Art, Wednesday, September 2, 2026 3:48 PM (five minutes ago)

how do you know you have enough room on your mac?

also, are you sure you're OK with your backup not being up to date at all times? will you remember to refresh the backup periodically?

this is the option that mh was talking about, "download originals":

https://i.postimg.cc/fy9Sc1DK/Screenshot-2026-09-02-at-1-53-26-PM.png

i don't have it checked because i definitely do not have enough space on this mac for my entire photos library

it used to just be BB but i recently had to restore from BB and found it such a ball-ache that it’s worth it to me to have the physical backup as well

anyway i’m still strictly a “dump my phone photos to my computer every so often” guy

this sounds good although i worry about all the photos you don’t have backed up between iphone dumps

that’s life

Okay, it was checked "optimized mac storage" but when I changed it nothing seemed to happen. Maybe that means everything was already on my computer.

I'll watch the video posted above to figure out how to do this right. The last time I backed everything up properly was over five years ago.

nothing will happen to your naked eye but in the background your mac will silently begin downloading all the originals. i don't know how long that will take. what is your current free disk space looking like? keep an eye on it over the next few days, the downloading won't happen all at once.

i recall that i did this once and what happened is that photos downloaded all the originals until my hard drive filled up, then macos told me my storage was dangerously low, then my mac slowed down to a crawl and remained in that state until i either rechecked the box or did some other shenanigans to try and unfuck my mac. anyway... tread carefully!

I’m dumping whatever is in my photo library onto the external hard drive and it looks like it’s going to take a long time. When that’s done I’ll futz around more but I want to make sure SOMETHING is backed up before I start dicking around. I guess I could also get it back with time machine but I’m scared.

I have a 2tb drive on my mac but it doesn’t actually have loads of space left. It’s mostly music, I should probably store all of that externally to clear up space.

I'm also still a download photos to Mac every once in a while guy. I do have free automatic cloud backup to Amazon included as part of Prime subscription though never really had to call on it. It only had limited space for videos so it's really only a photo backup.

I moved from Lightroom to Photos app a while ago and after a while it started acting weird and the whole library got corrupted and would crash so I had to rebuild the whole thing after extracting the photos from the library package. I think Photos doesn't love having the library on an external SSD. Anyway it seems OK now but it takes an age to rebuild the face recognition as you have to a) have the SSD connected b) have Photos not open and c) not have the Mac asleep.

Anyone else have the problem where it "forgots" you have external speakers or headphones plugged in and just uses the internal speakers until you reboot?

did this at work on wednesday morning but if i clicked on the speaker thing at the top it let me choose the correct output device

Hmm. I don't have a speaker thing at the top, I did look in settings > sound and I think "external headphones" was already selected.

go to system settings -> menu bar -> click 'sound', change to 'always show', then you'll always be able to select sound input/output from the menu bar

thanks - i'll see what happens next time it forgets.

Any way to delete the Maps app from my Mac? I seem to have gotten it off my phone.

Yes it’s sheerly symbolic but Apple didn’t have to bend the knee right away and they’re really just pissing off their largely liberal user base with this crap.

Do wonder if tech CEOs live in such a weird bubble that they imagine MAGA is genuine massively popular grassroots movement rather than the reality that it’s just weaponized bigotry largely driven by disinformation on corporate social media which is mainly successful thanks to how dysfunctional our political system is.

While Apple unveiled new higher-end iPhones today, the still-current lower-end iPhone 17 and Air went up in price $100/£100 along with price increases on some other products. Hardly Apple's fault, but still a bummer.

$2,399 for the 2TB iPhone 18 Pro. $3,199 for the 2TB iPhone Duo. A $3,200 phone.

Trade-in values for your older iPhones have been reduced too.

:-(

new product releases always diminish trade-in values on the same product. ipad trade-ins keep going up. I might trade some iPad cash and go for the 18 pro? idk

the storage prices getting worse is abominable. ram should be cheap now or at the very least growing at the same price. fuck the syndicate leeching all of the memory and storage!

Syncing my current iPhone with my old Mac Mini no longer works. I have like eight new albums I want to put on there, plenty of storage, but it fails at the final step. Every time.

I got a backup to work finally but I’m worried about trying to upgrade now

from listening to the nerdy apple podcast my understanding is usb sync has probably been untouched probably since the ipod was discontinued

seems the best way to transfer from an old iphone to a new iphone is either device to device transfer or icloud backup

Yeah, but how can I be sure my entire music library will end up on the new phone?

oh you're not supposed to use the iphone for on-device music anymore without a subscription, duh

if you really want to keep the flame, get a modkit for your old ipod (i'm assuming you have one lying around somewhere) https://www.wired.com/story/ipod-modders/

the old mini can’t do wifi sync?

maaaybe?

oh you're not supposed to use the iphone for on-device music anymore without a subscription, duh

Oh of course. I HATE APPLE

I have a republican national convention Microsoft zune in a box somewhere. I should mod that and flex that?

Remember the Friday the 13th TB show that was all about cursed objects? Leave that Zune alone.

I managed to upgrade without significant incident but it did take several hours to get all 262.5 GB of music on to the new iPhone. And it corrupted the album art on some of the new stuff. Whatever!

Apple appear to have unfucked whatever they fucked up in macOS 26 that made is such a battery drain. I upgraded this morning when I got in the office and noticed just before home time that my Air had just hit 1%, back to macOS 25 experience.

I do hate my shitty LG monitor which is meant to give out 60W on USBC. But plug anything else in (today was my keyboard, not recharging but on 100% and just maintaining, that prevented it from giving out any juice on usb c)

I need advice.

To begin, while some basic music production/editing and InDesign will be utilized quite frequently, I am not otherwise a “high needs” user.

I am considering getting the new M6 Mac Mini, then adding a dock with 4TB storage because my biggest issue at the moment is storage— I can’t really leverage much more space on my Air. I have a spare Apple keyboard and a decent monitor with HDMI that I got off a friend.

My two big questions are:
- should i go for the 24GB memory rather than the 16GB? keeping in mind the caveats about my usage.
- what dock should i get, as there is a ton of crap all over the internet about them but i can’t find solid info on which is the best for my needs.

thanks in advance!!

people on reddit say that indesign doesn't really benefit from more ram, but idk

if all you need is storage then you don't necessarily need a dock, unless you have a lot of external devices you want to plug in

for 4TB you can either get a spinning disk external hard drive or an SSD. SSD prices are crazy because of the AI boom. SSDs are also much more performant than spinning disk hard drives. if all you're doing is putting files on there and accessing them occasionally a spinny disk hard drive is fine. i'd then keep the files you're actively working on stored on the mini's internal SSD.

i want to be able to access them whenever i want— that is, i want to be able to pull up any music file or PDF in my libraries with little to no lag at any time.

maybe i just haven't used an external storage device for any purpose other than backup in a while, but my recollection of using one many years ago was that lag was significant. if that's changed, and if all that's necessary for my needs is an SSD, then there are a few in the 4TB range that come in under $400, which is okay by me.

also thanks for your response, i am not the best with this type of shit, evidenced by the fact that i have been delaying getting a new computer for a while— my 2019 era Air is finally starting to kick it, it seems.

(i made an error above, there are a few in the 2tb range that come in under 400$, which is okay)

yeah you'll want an external SSD then. if you care about speedier write times for large files then i'd look for one with usb 3.2 gen 2 (i.e. if you're moving a lot of big 1GB files to the disk) but otherwise anything that's usb 3.2 should be good

if you can swing it i might go for the larger internal SSD (512GB i think) since macos golden gate takes up at least ~20gb due to ai bullshit that you can't turn off https://macdailynews.com/2026/09/25/apple-intelligence-is-eating-up-to-30gb-on-some-macs-after-macos-27/

unfortunately you're buying at a pretty bad time, most computer prices are up like 50-200% due to ai

yeah, i know, i just didn't need until now... i fucking hate AI so much, even moreso now lol

the latest macs use thunderbolt at speeds nearly equal to having an internal SSD. The drives cost more but even the last generation is pretty damn good. A thunderbolt 5 connected SSD is not a USB connected HD.

don't worry about InDesign. I do all kinds of next level high-end indesign work using m1 chips.

But get as much ram as you can comfortably afford anyway, it'll just make things last longer.

thanks dan!

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/05/apple-intelligence-removal-tool-frees-mac-storage/

i might have to give this a try

niiice

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