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Well I have something to check when I can get into an Apple Store without queuing up

Filed under “A thousand reasons why I’m reluctant to invest $3,000 again in an Apple laptop.”

It’s wild that M1 Macs can run all the same apps as Intel Macs because Apple burdened everyone with the weight of incompatibility by blocking 32-bit apps in a software update three years ago. And we just… went with it.

I can’t believe some people haven’t read the MacOS Human Interface Guidelines for fun in the mid-1990s

I wish Apple had staggered the release dates. I wanted to see the iPad mini in store today, but there were twenty people in line, and I know I’m not the only fan of that form-factor but I don’t think we’re that many.

The Uniqlo near me has added these self-checkout machines and I’m 🤯

Identifying a whole bunch of RFIDs at the same time isn’t a trivial problem, right?

Thought for a moment that iOS 15 had gotten rid of the option to turn a live photo into a long exposure — it’s just hidden behind the “Live” label in the upper left corner. (And thankfully quicker to access, once you know about it. Forget about discoverability, of course.)

Got an SSL certificate expiring today so I figured I’d give Let’s Encrypt another try, and now I have 99 problems and a migraine is one.

Oops, I completely forgot about Pinboard (and back when I had a subscription, I never used it to store temporary bookmarks)

Good grief, is there seriously still no way to add a link to Safari’s Reading List from the iOS Share sheet in a third-party app?!

Oh, right, links randomly and silently failing to save, that’s why I had stopped using Instapaper even though it has the least annoying UI.

The thermal design looks very lap-unfriendly; not only does it blow hot air on the sides, but if you just rest it on your thighs the exhaust will be trapped between your skin/clothes and the top cornice 😕

I truly resent Apple for losing so much of their UX advantage that I’m here hesitating between buying a Microsoft or Apple laptop. Now the main argument remaining in their favor is platform synergy, and that won’t be enough to justify the new MacBook Pro’s price.

$2,100 for the Surface Laptop Studio with a 3050 Ti and 512GB SSD. I wanna see how that converts to euros, but it’s… tempting.

🎶 Panos Panay sitting in a tree, doodling h-i-n-g-e-s 🎶

Really though, both the girdled laptop and the notification hinge give the impression somewhat of designing for product shots rather than actual device experience. Hope I’m wrong, but then I’ll never see either device in real life, so I’ll never know.

Making the laptop look thin only when it’s sitting on the table is certainly… innovative? I do love the hinge design.

As much as I want to love this device (if only it were running Microsoft Courier instead of Android), putting glanceable notifications inside the hinge sounds like trying too hard to me. Just do what everyone else is doing, shave the battery a bit and add an external screen.

I know it’s only for the first run, but having to “authorize” every single shortcut I’ve created myself to access the app actions I’ve defined myself ON EVERY SINGLE DEVICE I OWN is killing me.

Here’s a free suggestion for Apple:

iPad SE; iPad Air 8” or 11”; iPad Pro 11” or 13”.

Weird, annoying choice in watchOS 8: to make room for a fake text field that’s just a bigger button, you now need an extra tap to reach the emoji reaction button — the one I use the most, since it’s so much more convenient for a quick reply

Quite impressed with Live Text on a photo of my very bad whiteboard handwriting, but I can’t get Visual Lookup to trigger for any photo in my library?

Then again, I probably trust iCloud slightly more than the Photos app itself.

I could free over 100 GB on my main Mac if I didn’t insist Photos keep a local copy of all my pictures, but… that would require trusting iCloud 😕

Imagine being a Facebook executive and being shocked, shocked! to find that gambling is going on in here

Oh no, I shouldn’t have started reading reviews of iPhone 13 Pro photography 😱 Everything is so tempting… and I didn’t even know the telephoto lens is longer than on previous models.

This thread brought to you by the indispensable Disk Inventory X

I also appreciate how Xcode’s Organizer window doesn’t seem to let you select multiple app archives at the same time to clear some fucking space. Gotta go through them one at a time or delete in Finder and hope that doesn’t break anything.

FFS that’s one percent of the total disk space — and only because I splurged on what would still be considered today a big SSD.

Why does my Mac have NINE GIGABYTES of crash logs from every single app I’ve ever run on my phone 🤦🏻‍♂️

Awww look at that tiny widdle DND indicator (#finally)

So… when Apple talks of a new password manager included in macOS Monterey, do they mean something like the corresponding settings pane in iOS 15? Because… that’s not gonna do it. Never mind the lack of folders, you can’t even add arbitrary fields to an entry.

It hasn’t once occurred to me to do this on iPad so I guess I’ll continue copying images to the clipboard. (That might be due to how unreliable drag-and-dropping from web browsers directly to other apps has been on Mac.)

Who designed this and are they trying to prevent people from upgrading?

I’m old enough to remember when iTunes was a halo-effect product 😭

I’m just gonna have to bite the bullet, give up on star ratings and go back to managing my music library in folders like in the dark ages (but on my NAS). Apple is never gonna fix Music’s handling of user-managed files; there’s no subscription revenue in that.

Anyone got any experience with Cog? Or another music library app? I know, this is a request from another century 😫 [cog.losno.co] [twitter.com]

Not the Music app regularly failing to import a music file without warning me

The problem with Mastodon is that it’s too complicated, and it’s its own closed system. Base it on RSS instead and you already have all the content of the web: every blog and news site available day one.

Can we relaunch RSS as a decentralized competitor to Twitter yet?

Subscribe to a server that gives you a feed of posts, truncated if they’re long, displayed as a familiar timeline. All that’s missing is a standardized protocol for replies (i.e., comments) and messages.