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.

wild how apple totally ceded music to spotify without even really trying to win

I think initially they did it for anti-trust reasons. Now, though, it's just inexcusable.

but I do it hardwired no cloud sync nonsense for me. (Which may be a significant contributor to my problems because I’m possibly the only one in the world who still does this?)

You're not alone either. My music library is 95000+ tracks strong and syncs great with my phone via USB.

WOW. Ok I stand corrected.

And now I’ve made the unfortunate decision to upgrade. Hmm how can we make the Music app even worse? Let’s see…

They’re just tinkering with shit for no reason, flipping switches randomly to see what happens.

Doctor my eyes!

It's unbelievably bad on desktop

Make it stop

Now there’s no longer a way to consistently switch to the MiniPlayer with one click — clicking the (x) button might do it, but if you click it again it doesn’t switch back to windowed and instead it does the same thing as the (-) button? So well thought out.

I don't want to have to become my own IT person to listen to music. It's ridiculous.

I’m ready to finally start looking for alternatives for sure.

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There’s a keyboard shortcut to change the window but that doesn’t actually switch views it just places the MiniPlayer on top of the existing window. Because fuck you.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/01/18/yes-you-need-to-turn-your-iphone-off-and-on-again-now/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/01/18/yes-you-need-to-turn-your-iphone-off-and-on-again-now/

Okay fine I'm updating.

You’ll regret it.

I'm sure I have droned on about it before, but I just have a 10 year old Mini running 10.13 and iTunes, wrangling a 2.5TB library of 67000 lossless tracks, playing via optical to a DAC to an old hi-fi, and it ... works. Even remotes on iPhones and iPads, albeit the app hasn't been updated in a decade. Then I have an AAC compressed version of all the tracks on another old Mini, syncing to my phone and a couple of decommissioned phones as car and workshop players and they ... work. I only have to deal with Music on my work laptop and my phone, and it's fine playing a stored library; I don't have any truck with the online service or Spotify, just Bandcamp streaming if I need it since most of my purchases are through them.

i think my apple pay was compromised so i’m updating to io26 :/

Eh, one mixed blessing from the update is that it borked my old version of Civilization and now that I’ve reinstalled it there’s no longer a bug of the sound on my entire system slowing down indefinitely when I launch the game.

Looks like Spotlight is leveling up its game too (or maybe just calling existing hidden features to my attention).

Just got a new (ish, nov 24) macbook through work. Something up with the headphone cable, half the time or more it just ignores it and plays through its own speakers. I booted up this morning, plugged in the cable and was thrilled to hear the sound coming out of my actually good proper hi-fi speakers. But somehow without me noticing it is now playing through the internal speakers again!

could be the cable itself?

Did they do some update to the autofill text? I swear half the time I send text nowadays some random extra word gets added at the end

could be the cable itself?

nope, doesn't work with two different headphones or external speakers.

Google is probably better than any help I can give but mostly likely the next step is to go into settings and make sure audio out is correctly assigned. Following suggestion would be deleting preference files if you’re comfortable with that. (Be sure to save the old ones.)

Problem solved, it was the bloody qobuz app having its own setting for audio out! Sorry Apple I don't hate you quite so much now.

About enough said regarding this bullshit to be sure but the more I use the newly updated version the worse it seems. I can’t even enumerate the amount of fuckery going on. It seems like they might genuinely be trying to nuke their product with the damage they’ve done from this one update.

Did Spootify somehow plant a mole in the upper echelon at Apple Music HQ?

what's the issue?

I’ll just throw a few out there but this is far from definitive.

- [command-L] no longer actually goes to highlighted song (as it has since the beginning of iTunes afaik). It is still listed in the menu but does who the fuck knows what now
- if you click at the top of a column when viewing a playlist as “songs” it now takes you out of that field and goes to some new secret fourth field
- already mentioned the pointless fuckery when changing the type of window
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I’m sure more will come to me if you want me to continue.

Should’ve said [command-L] no longer highlights currently playing song. Or maybe it does but also hides it from view.

Command l working for me last I checked. Will double check in a bit.

Got a new Mac Mini. Migration went very smoothly. Except I'm now in a situation where I can't switch between accounts, can't logout of an account, can't shut down, can't restart. So I'm going to reach under the mini and do a hard restart. Less than three days after getting my new computer! not great

Tahoe is strange visually.. Finder icons are very soft and fuzzy looking. I actually really love the clear, bold look of the sidebar icons and I wish I could make them all look like that

In addition to its jaw dropping ugliness, Tahoe is buggy af. Mail can’t sign in to my work’s Exchange server. I can’t drop an image file into Messages to add a picture, I have to open it, select all, copy and paste. And so on.

I'm in the market for a new laptop, as my 2015 pro is on the fritz and needs a monitor to function. Ultimately would like to spring for a (refurbished) M1, which looks to be about $1500 on places like back market. However, it's a stretch for my current financial situation. On the other hand, the new Neo could meet essentially most of my needs, it's only $600, and has the benefit of being something I won't have to shit myself with anxiety quite so much if I bring it out to coffee shops, etc. On the other other hand, I could just spend something like $250 for a refurbed 2015 (so essentially a $250 screen repair)

to be about $1500 on places like back market

spoke too soon, it looks like they have these available for as low as 700-ish

so maybe time to just buckle up and do that

MacBook Pro (2021) 16-inch - Apple M1 Pro 10-core and 16-core GPU - 16GB RAM - SSD 512GB

Just to share one example. They have this one for $750.

And it doesn't have the stupid woo woo rainbow bar so that's a plus

Don't get an M1 MacBook Pro unless it's really cheap. The M1 MacBook Air is just as good – they shipped with same chipset. Air just lacks the Touch Bar you hate and has slightly better speakers (my wife has one cause it was heavily discounted).

M1 Air was $999 new I think so must be pretty cheap now. I still use mine and it runs great.

eh the M1 pro chip in what the above poster posted is fairly more performant than the basic m1 chip in the macbook air

i'd be a bit worried about the battery health of an old laptop but i bet a battery from 2021 is bound to be much better than a battery from a 2015 macbook

CmdSMdE, i'd do one of these M4 macbook airs - the m4 chip should be better than the m1 pro

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/fc6u4ll/a/Refurbished-13-inch-MacBook-Air-Apple-M4-chip-with-10%E2%80%91Core-CPU-and-10%E2%80%91Core-GPU-Sky-Blue
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/fc6t4ll/a/Refurbished-13-inch-MacBook-Air-Apple-M4-chip-with-10%E2%80%91Core-CPU-and-8%E2%80%91Core-GPU-Sky-Blue

Thanks so much! My current 'book is a 15-inch, and the extra space is really handy for music stuff and translation work, so if you have any recommendations w/ 15- or 16-inch screens I'd be most appreciative

Ah sorry I didn't notice the Pro got an update in 2021. My comment refers to the launch 2020 models

hmm I don't think I can find a 15" or 16" screen macbook in the $750 range from a reputable source xp

This is the one I was looking at

https://www.backmarket.com/en-us/p/macbook-pro-2021-16-inch-m1-pro-10-core-and-16-core-gpu-16gb-ram-ssd-512gb/73b93534-c21a-4b57-90ab-4f4eb6e09a40?l=11

I have two m1 macbook pros and neither have the touch bar, that must've been killed in the middle of that.

if they have a good return policy and/or warranty and it's the size you want go for it. my only criteria for the new apple silicon macbooks is you must get 16gb of ram. i have had two with 8GB (one from work, one mac mini i bought) and both got real slow

I've used the M1 Air with 8 gb for a few years now, amazing machine, $799 or so brand new. I was told the way Apple Silicon handles memory means it can do more with less RAM. I've recorded and mixed songs on it in Logic, Photoshop/Illustrator, even a little Premiere. The screen size/ storage are the bigger bottlenecks to me than the RAM. I would check out a Neo as a possible replacement someday for sure- I have and love my Studio for actual stuff these days.

The Neo isn't an M processor, though, so I'd want to see some youtube reviews or whatever before I counted on it to run Logic well and stuff- the tipping point for me on the M1 Air was youtube vids with people showing off Logic sessions with hundreds of tracks running on that machine.

Neo also limited to 8 gigs ram. I'm impressed you comfortably did as much as you did with 8 gigs but I wouldn't risk it.

Especially as Adobe and others have moved to subscription versions they are bloating with AI nonsense. I’m skeptical too.