Apple

Got the 621 and it kind of sucks. Constantly disconnects and slow charging. Wonder if this is just the product

Hi folks, hope all are well today. I’m having strange issue related to iOS Lemmy clients.

Issue: when replying to posts or other comments, the volume when typing goes way up. Meaning it’s really loud. However, the volume indicator shows the volume as being low. Using the volume buttons has no effect.

Yet, typing a new post (such as this one) the volume is normal.

This has happened with Voyager and Mlem, haven’t tried any others yet.

Has anyone experienced this? I thought it was a Voyager issue until I installed Mlem and it happened.

Thoughts, comments, aimless ramblings are all welcome!

iPhone 14 Plus non-pro

I’m usually an Android/Linux user, but also use an iPad. In both Android and Linux I manage to have a mostly ad free experience, with Piped, for example, or with a plugin combo in Firefox. Is there a way to have this on the iPad? The whole no plugin thing in iPad Firefox is quite maddening.

I've installed NTFS-3g but as far as I can tell it only allows me to mount and write to NTFS partitions, I need to actually create one. Free as in beer.

So as you may know, iOS 18.1 and watchOS 18.1 is out. And i decided to updste both my phone and watch simultaneously. (They were both plugged in) The phone finished first, but when the apple watch finished, it stopped charging, and instead discharging. (it was plugged in). Well after i clicked on the battery percentage on the watch face, it odly says that its at 100%, while the watchface says 98%. Anyone encountered this bug?

I upgraded only because the speakers on my 12 Mini were failing making it nearly impossible to have a phone call.

(1) This phone is too big, heavy, and slippery and uneasy to grasp with one hand.
(2) The camera bump is ridiculously large. It’s laughable how much it rocks on the counter as you type on it. Not in a good way.
(3) The Camera button is in the worst place (accidentally clicking it constantly) and too confusing so I disabled it forever.
(4) I also disabled the action button. This seems too easy to disable silent mode which I have enabled 99.9% of the time.
(5) The screen is noticeably worse and has a blue cast. It’s not as sharp and the contrast is dull.
(6) I love the material used on the back, even though it makes it difficult to hold.

I fully understand the hardware is significantly more advanced but the iPhone 16 genuinely feels like a downgrade from the iPhone 12 Mini. I’m not happy at all.

I’m going to stop by the Apple Store this weekend and look at getting the SE.

The inconvenience of being on US English (I'm Australian) simply wasn't worth it for me and I've switched it off.

The summaries are okay but not groundbreaking Photos features are gimmicky Siri is no more useful, only benefit is it was now more responsive and accurate for Home Control commands Most features simply don't exist yet

I'm kinda shocked Apple has rushed this to market in the current state

How have you been finding AppleInt?

I have been trying in vain to do this in both automator and shortcuts.

The trouble seems to be happening right at the very start. I can't seem to figure out how to get selected files from finder to be passed as input to a shell script running exiftool.

I actually thought this might be a good thing for me to test using chatGPT for as it's meant to be good at this type of thing and while I assume the shell scripts it was generating were probably good, it couldn't seem to get me passed this basic first step.

I've tried making the shortcut a quick action, which by default adds the 'receive' action to the shortcut, but somehow it seems to be impossible to get the output from that to be the input for the shell script, nothing works. This was tested with a few debugging steps to log the output and it definitely looks like that first step is where things are going wrong. I really don't get it. This was way harder than I expected.

I'm trying to avoid having to throw away my decklink mini monitor 4k that I used in my old PC build. It's a PCIe gen 2 4-lane card.

To replace this card with something new of similar function that uses external ports, I have to either buy something quite a bit worse in terms of function for a little bit more than my current PCIe version currently costs, or something equivalent in function for way, way more than the 4k decklink costs.

I figured best bet would be to just get a PCIe enclosure to keep using my old card with the new laptop but the costs of those enclosures are STAGGERING, just unbelievably high, way more than even the expensive replacement card. The cheapest I could find is 2nd hand and so old it uses TB2 ports. I thought that might be okay with thunderbolt adaptors for modern connectors but it occurs to me that Apple Silicon driver support could be an issue. Any idea if it would even work?

A Senior Advisor at Apple Support told me a few minutes ago that if I am wearing the watch the notifications go there and not the phone, and that’s how it was designed and there’s nothing I can do. I’ve had the watch for a good few months now, and I could totally be crazy, but I do NOT remember this fuckery being the case back then. Am I nuts?

https://beta.maps.apple.com/

It doesn’t seem to support Firefox, or not yet at least.
Maps on the web is compatible with these web browsers

On your Mac or iPad

• Safari
• Edge
• Chrome

On your Windows PC

• Edge
• Chrome

This may be a stupid question, I realize.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/22244134

I use SwiftKey and I hate it, but I haven't found anything better

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17058378

Let’s continue our marvelous trip into GUI Wonderland, where we’ll learn 80s computing alongside our trusty Apple Lisa, the first personal computer with a GUI!

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I really love and regularly use a split keyboard.

I’ve been hoping to fix these bugs for many years, for a very long time. The bug has been reported many times by me and other suffering users. No changes in all these years.

I'm trying not to just resist everything new in mac OS right away, but this whole focus concept and do not disturb mode turning on without me asking it to and not having any option to disable it is just too much. I can imagine maybe using this in some exceptional circumstances where it actually occurred to me to do so, but I definitely want it to be a conscious decision.

In the preferences I could find no off switch. I tried setting it to only turn on when I'm in Antarctica and off when I'm not but it didn't seem to actually work as the little moon icon remained there even after this. I also tried to scheduling it to operate in a one minute window but even after that window elapsed it continued to be in 'do not disturb mode'. I don't tend to get a whole lot of notifications nor rely on them much but frankly the idea that they're being suppressed not under direction from me is infuriating and I don't want that to happen.

I really, really hate Stage Manager on the iPad, but I want to use an external display to allow me to have 3 or 4 apps open at a time and all showing. I.e. not just mirroring my old style multitasking display on the external monitor.

Come on @apple

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1701378

Stolen device protection on iOS 17.3 will allow disabling stolen device protection (as well as resetting face/touch ID) with only the passcode after a few failed face/touch ID authentication attempts. iOS 17.4 beta, which is currently only available to developers, fixes this so you absolutely need to pass biometric authentication to change these settings. If this feature is important to you, you may want to update to 17.4.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/21906358

Apple announces support for alternative app marketplaces, web browser engines in the EU with iOS 17.4

Updated the link to a better source that gives a more detailed overview.