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.

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

With the Apple models gone, you lose all Siri-related AI features, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, ChatGPT integration, summaries, smart replies, inline predictions, Photos Clean Up, Spatial Photos, and Xcode predictive completion.

took the plunge and bought an M6 Mac Mini 24/512, a new monitor, and a 2 TB SSD from Crucial. Around $1700 all told. i have a keyboard and mouse already. thanks for everyone's suggestions.

that’s a pretty powerful machine! enjoy the computing, such as it is

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-the-new-apple-tv-4k/

honestly apple tv is one area where i wouldn't mind better AI, the current apple tv sucks extreme ass at voice-to-text

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XxNXkOHKZw

please just fix your app instead of wasting time with bullshit like this

apple obviously isn't an experience company but a product company, but I hope the new leadership tilts things back toward the understanding that the experience of using the products is how you make better ones. neat stuff here and there, but overall everything seems like a decent version of a commodity product

kudos on poaching the one Halide developer to work on the iPhone camera app, though. it's pretty good now!

one of my biggest issues with the app is search— like no, i don’t want the apple music catalog of this artist, i want what is in my library. i don’t want this other shit! fuck off!!

I find it hilarious that iOS constantly moves the search bar up and down with no consistency between their own apps. And why the F should a search bar retain last searched in the query window. That’s nuts.

one of my biggest issues with the app is search— like no, i don’t want the apple music catalog of this artist, i want what is in my library. i don’t want this other shit! fuck off!!

as someone who uses it mostly for streaming my main frustration is having to switch from "home" to "library" to find things on the wider service. Some kind of unified search with results tagged with the source would probably be better for me.

i just tried the new and improved siri and it’s so fuckin trash lmaoooooo

do they not have any shame?? this is what they waited 18 months for?

i wanted it to compare a guajillo chili with an ancho chili

it said it was not aware of any chili known as an agua chili, nor any chili known as an echo chili

and aguachile is a thing

third party voice transcription clients are way better at even just the speech to text

xxp maybe you need to pronounce them like a britisher since it knows where you are?

this is what I got, asking via voice:

Assuming you mean a guajillo chili, the main difference is that guajillos are dried mirasol peppers with a bright, tangy, and berry-like flavor, while anchos are dried poblanos that taste sweet and earthy with notes of chocolate and raisin. Guajillos are also roughly two to three times hotter, packing 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville heat units compared to the ancho's 1,000 to 2,000. Because of these differences, guajillos are best for adding vivid color and a clean fruitiness to salsas and marinades, whereas anchos are used to build a rich, dark base for moles and stews.
Keep in mind, I'm an assistant powered by AI and may make mistakes. Always verify important details.

I'm getting flashbacks to tombot recently mentioning a british youtube cooking show's pronunciation of "chilaquiles" and a past ilx thread where someone in the uk referred to someone "pronouncing the 'z' in chorizo" and I asked if they pronounced it "chori-zed-oh" (it was "chor-its-oh")

the latter pops into my mind occasionally and I chuckle

so i need to pronounce it wrong for siri if im in the uk ok got it

hey guys AI is shit

takes considerably less time and is more useful to look up an actual source of information than it does to shape a query and then find out if the answer is correct (thus easily searched) or clueless blather

xxp I was joking but... maybe?

i actually think you’re right but i can’t be bothered to turn it back on to find out

oh noooo

Apple Intelligence is the most hapless ineffective generative AI application I’ve tried to use. It has failed at literally every task I’ve put before it, including parsing an email and setting calendar reminders which should really be coming for free

they’ve done some weird sandboxing. it can’t create apple music playlists, but it can add to them. same with email folders. when it does something useful it’s nice. when it isn’t allowed to do things, sometimes it just closes the session instead of explaining it can’t. bizarre little program

I really don’t get it. They do all of these great demos and then you try to replicate the functionality as an end user and it goes “oh you want me to do something? You can fuck off into the sun”

as someone who works for a large corp that has an open “ai lead” near c-suite position (it will not be filled, no one with industry experience will take a salary at what they’d offer) what occurs to me is that someone in human-computer interaction or ux, who knows absolutely nothing about how llms work, should run these things. everything is weird and opinionated and wants you to speak in prompt-language and it’s not standard

I’d respect a bot that told me to fuck off into the sun tbrrwu

Google told me today that a robot vacuum I was looking for info was commonly also called the Nural as wells as it s brand name the Nuurio (or whatever). No it isn’t, that is what autocorrect turns the search term into if you fail to correct it back before you hit search. No wonder it can’t understand that someone in England might try and pronounce chorizo correctly.

I’m currently fighting a loosing battle with Apple Pay which keeps trying to sign me up for shipping to Japan because I have (on occasion) sent things to a Japanese address and now that’s where it thinks I want to send everything.

On the plus side upgrading to 27.2 handed back 100GB of iPhone storage it was using for System Data.

As much as I find the agents useful. The tendency to regress to the stupidest possible mean; like some gravity well of incompetence and the policing that demand is tiring.

By happenstance yesterday I realized that Apple Intelligence is “learning” from how I use various apps, and the only way to turn it off is to go into the App settings and turn it off for *every single app*

there's a script for that. someone wrote something that does it all for you, on a Mac at least, don't know about phones

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI

There are configuration profiles for macOS and iOS on that site. Though it says to deploy through an MDM like Jamf, you can install them via Apple Configurator app, or even by emailing it to yourself as an attachment. These are immutable and mean that they will persist through an OS update (though Apple will sometimes change payloads after a major version upgrade, so it's worth keeping tabs on that).