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ufarn
May 30, 2009
https://twitter.com/caseyjohnston/status/920322264150695937

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ufarn
May 30, 2009
i introduced my work to airplay, bunch of dumbasses who hadn't thought to replace their vga cables until then

ufarn
May 30, 2009
what's the deal on these framerate drops on the new iphones in ios 11?

ufarn
May 30, 2009

Generic Monk posted:

this has happened to me once or twice on my 6, iirc when apps were autoupdating. the homescreen has always had dropped frames whenever an update's going on but this was egregiously bad and made the phone unusable for like 30 seconds. something's definitely a bit hosed here and it's a bit of a sad state of affairs when everything to do with the app store is so bad that i just sort of expect poo poo like this to happen

honestly i quite like the new app store design but unconsciously expected it to arrive with an improvement to the general reliability of the app, which was hilariously naive. i think the bug where the store will just load infinitely until you force close and restart the app has been present 10 in 10 times i launch the app, on multiple devices, for literally years. i fully expect this to never get fixed since i presume this is the same team that brought you itunes for windows, where failure modes that require an app restart are the norm.

e: imagine getting a job at apple then learning they're going to put you on the itunes for windows team
oooh, i remember this happening when i first updated. i'm on my 5s, but don't think it's been too recurring for me . or maybe the general performance is just so awful i don't notice

ufarn
May 30, 2009

echinopsis posted:

low batt mode def seems to slow phone down now
still not sure why this doesn't kick in automatically at x% of battery power, too

or why we don't have a trigger setting for it

ufarn
May 30, 2009
you can tell it's a controlled leak because there're no issues with the phone in the footage

ufarn
May 30, 2009
t-shirt with copyrighted image

ufarn
May 30, 2009
anyone replaced the battery on their 5s? i think mine is worn down a bit, or it just acts really weirdly

ufarn
May 30, 2009
hmm, there appears to have been an exchange program for 5s, but the link now redirects to the "current" list of exchange programs

was the battery you bought from apple or third party like ifixit?

ufarn
May 30, 2009
i also don't think there's a "service battery" warning like on macos, so i'm just wondering how easy it'd be to perform a diy replacement with ifixit

ufarn
May 30, 2009
what do you even say at this point

https://twitter.com/iOSReleases/status/925043912598806528

ufarn
May 30, 2009
it's nice to see gruber grow increasingly frustrated with apple, now he's - understandably - blogging about vloggers getting some advance hands-on experience ahead of the regular embargo

ufarn
May 30, 2009
https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/926836824970072065

ufarn
May 30, 2009
honest question, how do i do the screen split and 2/3 + 1/3 in ios 11 on my ipad?

they changed the way it works and i can't figure it out for the life of me

ufarn
May 30, 2009
thanks, mike

i tried dragging an icon like that, but it apparently only works when combined with the slide-up move

ufarn
May 30, 2009
tv shows are available in some countries, probably just english-speaking ones, if not just na

e: here you go https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204411

ufarn
May 30, 2009
lmao

https://twitter.com/JohnPaczkowski/status/931556183806132224

ufarn
May 30, 2009
it's tony fadell's time to shine

ufarn
May 30, 2009
i like the idea of some mix between a landline and a phone where you just talk, but the emphasis on siri sounds like it'll just gently caress it up something fierce

ufarn
May 30, 2009
the open office dissidents are rebelling from inside cupertino

ufarn
May 30, 2009
still no macos bug bounty program, might want to use some of those hundreds of billions of overseas dollars on that

ufarn
May 30, 2009
looks like the hotfix broke file sharing for some macos users

ufarn
May 30, 2009
kind of nuts to see it all in one place

https://twitter.com/verge/status/936955315865686016

ufarn
May 30, 2009
https://twitter.com/BenoitLetondor/status/939127296266588160

something to be mindful of

ufarn
May 30, 2009
i love the part where apple people brought up the fact that the imac pro can run firewatch at 60 fps :captainpop:

ufarn
May 30, 2009
i can't believe they still haven't optimized their unity game

ufarn
May 30, 2009
we've added a coffee mug heater and we think you're going to love it

ufarn
May 30, 2009
https://twitter.com/MacRumors/status/942447124507066368

you're hearing it wrong

ufarn
May 30, 2009

Grassy Knowles posted:

no, they specifically mentioned it as an unsolved edge case

they could find identical twins but women were a testing environment they couldnt reproduce
i wonder to which extent faceid's training mechanism during failed recognition reduces the margin of error in general and for things like this over time

ufarn
May 30, 2009
i wonder what that new itunes app for windows will be like. one one hand, it's probably gonna be super barebones, on the other, doesn't take much to beat the status quo

ufarn
May 30, 2009
the charts here are pretty crazy, and we have a pretty good idea of what performance degradation looks like

https://twitter.com/jfpoole/status/942786620746620930

ufarn
May 30, 2009
microsoft have also become amazing at emulation at this point, it was just a terrible implementation, and windows rt could not have had a more repulsive ui and ux if they tried

windows apps still feel like you're running a vm or something; if they could just have them act and feel like regular programs, it'd be an awesome feature

ufarn
May 30, 2009
i'd feel a lot better about this if apple had pretended to care more about vetting in the app store, i just want to expect the worst with timb at the helm, not because it's inherently a bad idea

ufarn
May 30, 2009
who can you trust if you can't trust people who beat up women

ufarn
May 30, 2009
and it's not just that "this was obvious and makes the most sense in terms of decision-making", since you often have to rely on third parties to replace your batteries in the first place. there was no help and recourse short of giving users a really lovely experience they couldn't figure out the cause of

apple don't want users to replace their batteries, they just want them to buy new devices

https://twitter.com/Padraig/status/943610771094642688

it's just amazing what gruber will defend

ufarn
May 30, 2009
my first brush with battery issues on an apple product was when i noticed my macbook air was literally expanding from the inside, since it started wobbling, and the trackpad stopped working properly

there was a "service battery" when you clicked the battery icon, apparently, but no warnings nor alerts that prompted me

even my thinkpad t500 was easier to troubleshoot, and of course replace the battery for

ufarn
May 30, 2009
what's worker treatment like these days for people like cantine and catering workers? some contracted stuff with lovely wages and compensation, or did silicon valley get their act together somewhat?

ufarn
May 30, 2009
not by way of choice but shaming and union drives, of course

teamsters seem to have improved conditions for shuttle drivers, but i don't know how catering is handled. not that i've got any high hopes

ufarn
May 30, 2009
how and when is faceid "learning"? is it only during failed authentication attempts followed up by successful ones, or does it also do stuff during regular authentication?

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ufarn
May 30, 2009
my mom wants "a larger ipad", and i just know she's going to find a way to shatter it in a million pieces somehow

hopefully a smart cover will do most of the work

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