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njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


I will never capitalise any part of iphone and continue to fight ios and macos whenever they try and autocorrect it

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njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


infernal machines posted:

i use 1blocker on ios, not sure if there's a macos version

otherwise install firefox and use ublock origin

there is a macos 1blocker

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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as always, steve was ahead of the curve

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


i'm enjoying a lot of stuff coming out of the epic vs apple trial but this email from daddy tim about tim sweeney has loving killed me
https://twitter.com/duckvalentine/status/1389661193011351561

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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haveblue posted:

the core argument is over what counts as "the market"

epic's argument is that the market is iOS, where apple holds a monopoly and the court should break it up

apple's argument is that the market is video games, where apple is a minor player at best and the court doesn't need to do anything because customers can play fortnite on lots of other consoles and PCs

so how much are the interests of customers hurt by being unable to play fortnite on ios specifically without apple's permission?

part of apple’s argument is also that the consoles work under similar terms, you need to use their payment system and they get a 30% cut, so why does epic have an issue with that on ios but not on the switch? no doubt microsoft, sony, and nintendo are watching this thing closely as well since it could affect their platforms as well

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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also because they want everyone to put their games on their subscription service

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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ok but does the store have spagetti-os or do I have to go to the other store because the kids are already crying

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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gonna install it to subscribe to it though

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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I don't think it's the whole thing but for sure some parts of itunes are built into finder, since it's what you now use instead of itunes for restoring and syncing ipods

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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crepeface posted:

do we cover the apple v epic court case in this thread or the gaming thread?

it makes me laff

https://twitter.com/thedextriarchy/status/1391783535153979393?s=20

It's getting talked about in basically every apple adjacent thread on the forums, today was especially funny and all the banana stuff was going all round twitter

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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Astoundingly Ugly Baby posted:

I really hope Apple does make MacBooks in different colors. I want a purple Air or Pro to match my phone

I'd be amazed if they weren't going to do that for next year's macbooks so they match the new imac, can't imagine whoever wanted coloured imacs not also pushing for coloured macbooks to complete the nostalgia hit for people who had ibooks back in the day

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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hasn't an imessage equivalent for android been one of those things that keeps getting talked about but never actually happens?

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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BobHoward posted:

airpods receive data over bluetooth, which doesn't have the bandwidth to support lossless. not even compressed lossless codecs like ALAC iirc

it's a bit muddy looking it up, but i think at most the bluetooth 5.0 standard would support the cd quality at maximum, and even that would be a stretch

basically it's a bit clickbaity to be reporting this as something inherent to airpods, when it's the same for all bluetooth headphones

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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hell yeah bareback crew, the back of my se is scratched up to gently caress and I think it looks rad

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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Vivian Darkbloom posted:

is the iphone se decent enough? i have a pixel 3a and it's really good for a cheap phone, but I'll be upgrading eventually

It’s the best phone I’ve ever owned and it was my jumping point to ios after a decade of android, but listen to all the reviews that say to just drop the extra $50 for the 128gb model

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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I was gonna say, no-one who actually buys a phone based on its camera is buying anything other than flagships at this point

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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I just try to remember it’s a bit further in than you think it is

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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I am unreasonably excited about an AS mac pro just to see the absolute height of what this thing is actually capable of at the top end

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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m'books

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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is the current trend with all android cameras just slapping some brand only known to camera nerds on the lens and hoping all the reviewers piss themselves over this great camera maker legitimising their camera phones with a lens they probably only spent 5 minutes looking at?

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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couldn't possibly be talking about leica, the name that's actually printed on the thing

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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I mean if I had jony ive money I would also buy hella expensive cameras for my mates

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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I charge my battery when the battery is low

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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i am eternally paranoid about batteries since an old pair of wireless headphones had the battery compartment melt while it was charging after less than 6 months of owning them

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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and even if you have an outlet, it's a coin flip whether it actually works

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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its main use case then was exactly the same as it’s use case now, it’s for when you want your kid to have an iOS device but not have a phone

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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Gentle Autist posted:

holy poo poo they are still a thing, and still cheap

https://www.apple.com/nz/ipod-touch/

yeah, and the small storage actually makes more sense now than it did then since your kids are probably going to be streaming everything

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

thats basically the take i'm refuting, safari used to be a pile of poo poo and is now so much better than the competition that there just isnt a reason to use ff or opera other than being a dork

the main reason i can think of is if you absolutely need the pile of bookmarks you've accumulated over the years to be on your mac as well

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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it's not a fountain, just a regular water outlet, hence all the cups by it, still weird to have it mounted on such a big surface with loads of unused space around it

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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in hindsight my biggest issue with my post was saying loving 'water outlet' instead of just saying tap like a normal person

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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it's a good alarm too because something tapping your wrist gets you up way more effectively than something making noise

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

mice neltdown. cant think of a single difference between any of these devices and a thing thats strapped to your wrist with an always on display

my watch doesn’t have an always on display :colbert:

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


it's true I made the mistake of having black keys on my macbook and the letters are barely visible after a month

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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Last Chance posted:

I wonder how annoying it is for google to have to deal with so many real, actual users on a platform like YouTube. they can’t quietly just stop supporting it or kill it off. must be torture to not be able to completely gut/redesign it or make other competing platforms on a regular basis like most of their other products

you should look at more youtubers twitters, because youtube constantly redesigns backend and algorithm poo poo in ways that gently caress over smaller channels, then the really big channels all tweet that they had it explained to them personally and the minnows need to stop whining or read their email with zero self awareness that they might get treated differently

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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also they constantly introduce new services through youtube, like remember youtube red? i don't even remember what it was or how it was different from youtube premium i just remember the name

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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i spent longer than i care to admit looking for the subscribe button on a page before noticing they renamed it to follow

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


I miss the music app being explicitly named iPod

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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ngl that looks pretty nice

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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ipod nanos are the really notorious ones since they make a big show of pushing the screen out and had a recall during the lifespan of practically the entire range for battery problems

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njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

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ebay sellers are super wise to it as well, I've seen people in ipod discords buy nanos that looked fine in the listing and then had the spot when they got it, though the ipod still works fine despite the spot just would you put a battery that you know is swelling in your pocket

basically the nano sucks rear end and you can't even put a crazy amount of storage in them

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