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- utopian0
Apple...what a fucking joke!
- Each time I run an update for my iPhone it becomes Russian Roulette as to whether it will fuck the bluetooth connection to my Gear S3 watch.face_melter
- just don't updatehans_glib
- Yeah, I reached that point a little while ago. Apple's bluetooth set up is terrible compared to Android.face_melter
- i_monk-1
Apple staff "physically hurt" by walking into glass walls at Foster-designed campus
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/02/1…
The $5 billion (£3.6 billion) campus features numerous glass walls, which are being misjudged by users of building causing collisions and resulting in several people receiving medical treatment.
Seven people "physically hurt" themselves on the first day the Apple Park campus opened, claimed Twitter user Kenn Durrence.
- i mean it couldn't be user error right? no one would have been looking down at a particular device as they were walking?prophetone
- exactly. serve the phone zombies righthans_glib
- #GeniusBarchukkaphob
- they are walking wrongernexbcn
- they're using their eyes wrong, obviouslyGnash
- walking around wearing Google glass?chukkaphob
- fadein110
I have an oldish iMac that still runs quite well for it's age.
Replaced the harddrive a few years ago and there are a couple of minor screen patches but aside from that, it's a good workhorse still especially for running Logic and music stuff.Anyway it has recently started turning it's screen off randomly, the computer is still on it's just the screen that goes off and you have to press the button on back for a couple of seconds to get it back on.
If you have the screen brightness v.low it doesn't happen.
Anyway I obviously trawled the forums and someone had suggested it may be a heat issue and to remove SMC Fan Control and install TG Pro which I have done. Have to admit SMC didn't seem to be v.effective any more for some reason and TG Pro is certainly a better tool for that purpose, way more control over stuff.
So to cut a long story short(!) the screen no longer randomly turns off but I have noticed one of the temps is rather high. When in use the secondary heatsink goes up to around 90-92°C. It displays in red in TG so I presume this is the high end.
I have tried to find what the top end running temps are for the secondary heatsink but cannot find? Anyone know? Are these temps dangerous?
I also read it may simply be a build up of dust inside the iMac. Now if this was a PC I'd have the side off the tower in minutes and remove all the dust but as it's an iMac this is obviously a pain in the ass. Do you think this would help the issue though? I guess it cannot hurt and prob a good thing to do anyway. The guy who replaced the hard drive for me said he cleaned it all out as there was a big build up of dust.
Although old and needs replacing I would like to keep the good girl running for as long as I can. As I say she has served me well and is still a decent machine (aside form issues like this).
Thoughts anyone?
Thanks in advance.
- Check the processes to see if something is making it run hot. Newer OS updates have had a habit of sometimes screwing with things.face_melter
- The problem on my old MacBook Pro was 'kernel_task' running at CPU 90%+, had to fix it after each update.face_melter
- thanks - I will look into that.
Do you know what the secondary heat sink is? I thought it was to do with the power supply which is kind of what worried mefadein11 - in case it's dangerous.fadein11
- Dust blocks airflow and effects temps. But if it was easy to clean, you'd not need to buy a new mac...shapesalad
- Probably dustmonospaced
- yep hopefully. thanks.fadein11
- fourth1
- Facetime Video/Audio: Holy shit I swear this has saved my LDR. I found myself resorting to repeating "uh huh" and pretending I heard what she said because we'd get so annoyed with dropped video or audio. FaceTime uses some pied piper compression so its half the upload bandwidth that Skype uses. If you have less than 2mb upload Skype is unusable. And FT Audio, we both have shitty cell phone reception to where it sounds like we're in a tunnel. Switching to FT audio is like high definition for the first time- sounds like she's right next to me and I can hear super subtle things like her breathing, throat clearing, dog panting in the background (hey don't be perverted!)
- AirPods: Ok I fucking hated AirPods also. I have a nice pair of over ear Beyerdynamics, I dabble in hi-fi. But I found I used the wired EarPods regularly for calls, meetings, etc. Got an apple gift card and decided fuck it I'm tired of untangling ear buds. I don't care if I look stupid. I'm going to sound like a fan boy but this is a total evolution of earbuds. Not having a wire connecting the two makes a huge difference. No wire to bounce around when working out, or laying down, or make noise when you move your head and the cable drags or slightly dislodges the ear bud. Also, the charging case. It's like photography gear: the best lens/camera is the one you have on you. These are always in my ears. I forget about them.
- Siri: Yeah siri is retarded. But siri + AirPods is like the shitty version of how they portray virtual assistants in futuristic movies. Now use siri all the time (especially while driving) to read and send texts, setup reminders in todoist, launch apps, set alarms, check weather. Now I'm thinking of switching from spotify back to apple music. Yeah apple music isn't that great but I don't even look at it. Just tell it what to do. "Play hip hop playlist", "play some Drake for me", "Love this song", "add this song to library", "add this track to my chill playlist". Also switching back to apple podcasts app for this reason.
- plash4
- it's fugley, thoGnash
- beyond elegant ... timeless design ... breathtakingly innovative and forward thinking ... like magicmonospaced
- ugly but works...sted
- ugly worksLMFAO
- approvedMaaku
- it works .. but only lasts about 2 weeks in the real worldautoflavour
- M01XXX2
I'm still flabbergasted about this.
So I can use Apple's MacBook Pro USB-C charging adapter/ cable with their competitor and charge my Samsung Galaxy s8 and with actual fast charging.
- But the same Apple MBP adapter/ cable isn't compatible with their own iPhones.
- Even if I got an adapter/ dongle the fast charging probably still wouldn't work on iPhone X and you'd need the actual fast charging adapter for an additional $70-80.
- I can use Samsung's provided headphones on my MBP but not Apple's as there's no lightning port on the MBP and the iPhone 8/X does not use industry standard USB-C.
- I can plugin my Samsung Galaxy S8 to the MBP directly out of the box with the USB-C cable but Apple's own iPhones aren't compatible with the MBP without a dongle.
This is insane.
Does Tim Cook & Jony Ive realize this?
Apple was all about simplicity and ease of use.
I guess now it's just about stupid Animojis.
- Extra money for a fast charger is fucking woeful when outfits like OnePlus provide one out the box with a phone that costs half of an iPhone. Aaaand cue mono...face_melter
- If you're paying for an iphone, it's the equivalent of paying for those yeezy trainers. There's no practicality, you're just paying for the brand. More fool youset
- No I don't own an iPhone, switched to Samsung/ Android since 2013 for many reasons. Just think it's funny how Apple's own stuff isn't compatible together.M01XXX
- it isset
- Seriously, nobody uses cables to connect phones anymore. Just get on WiFi and sync that shit in the background like a normal person.monospaced
- Not saying you’re wrong about cables. That shit is stupid. But still. Cmon.monospaced
- mono, that's a stupid excuse. Leave the sync out. Just the charging & headphones connectivity isn't compatible between iPhone & MacBooks.M01XXX
- My google pixel 2 doesn’t have a headphone port either.monospaced
- That's not what I'm talking about. Apple uses Lightning port for charging/ headphones on iPhones but USB-C & standard headphone jack on their MacBooks.M01XXX
- I said you’re right about the cables btw.monospaced
- I agreed and said, verbatim, “that shit is stupid.”monospaced
- why are android users always complaining about apple?inteliboy
- go to any tech website, or tech youtube video, or anything - and there are just countless people ranting about how apple sucks. including qbn.inteliboy
- I type this on a MacBook Pro. So no, I'm not an 'Android fan boy'. In fact I wish iPhoneX was so good it made me switch but it it still isn't good.M01XXX
- The fact that Apple's own products aren't compatible fully out of the box together is what's so annoying too.M01XXX
- They are. Wirelessly.monospaced
- That was partly a jokemonospaced
- fyoucher12
Just returned my iPhone X for an iPhone 8. Thought it was a big fail.
- Face ID worked about 60% of the time, then I'm typing in my passcode. It never got any faster or fixed itself as far as I can tell. Fingerprint recognition just worked.
- Swiping up for Home is a big fail. If I want to use my one hand to use the phone, I need to use my thumb to swipe up. Can't really hold the phone too securely without my thumb.
- Not being able to turn the phone on while it's sitting flat on my desk without having to hover my face over it to turn it on was a big turn off, especially while I'm testing code and QAing things.
Anyone else do the same? How do you like the 8?
I really would like to switch to Android but I really like how everything syncs to my iMac and Macbook Pro with an iPhone.
- I haven't found any of those things to be issues. I couldn't ever get my phone to turn on well the Home button/fingerprint combo, and the face ID works...MondoMorphic
- ...95%+ of the time, even at night, pitch black, etc. I can't say enough good things about the iPhone X. It's a night and day improvement, IMO. :)MondoMorphic
- Face ID works for me 95% of the time. You swipe up as you look at it with one hand. Tap to turn it on.ArmandoEstrada
- I got the 8 because I wanted to keep the fingerprint scan, avoid these issues, and save a few hundred bucks. It's basically the 7, but more slippery and fastermonospaced
- you guys and your iPhones lol, get over it, get a decent phone.fadein11
- I'm the opposite - Touch ID never worked well for me.inteliboy
- monospaced0
AAPL hits all time highs today.
- Thanks to dongles. Tim Cook is a genius.M01XXX
- Was that a joke?monospaced
- utopian0
We asked Siri, Alexa, and the Google Assistant 10 questions — here's which one is the smartest?
Guess what...Apple's Siri is the dumbest, no surprises.
- utopian0
Instagram is the latest to drop its Apple Watch app
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/i…- Because Apple now requires the apps to be native. Insta wasnt.ArmandoEstrada
- utopian0
Slack is the latest app to ditch the Apple Watch
https://www.engadget.com/2018/02…- it seems you really want apple to fail.inteliboy
- Slack would have been handy on Watch, if it ever actually worked. So many times I'd get a notification, tap it, and then it would never load.Nathan_Adams
- Quite the opposite...I have invested heavily into Apple over the past 20+ years, Apple will fail itself, it's users and investors.utopian
- Everything that comes out of Apple today is garbage, just one lazy arrogant execution after another. It is only a matter of time time.utopian
- shapesalad2
Apple ditching intel for it's own chips by 2020:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a…
Bloomberg guy saying "they need to squeeze even more profit out of their hardware...."
I guess $10.7B profit just isn't cutting it:
- they will even make their own displays, having control of every component is the goal
but 2020 sounds too early, this nugget might be to wrestle some discountsernexbcn - ...from intelernexbcn
- timelines seems feasible ... they already develop their own chips for their mobile devices, which are impressive for their size and efficiencymonospaced
- Changing the codebase from x86 to ARM will be a major undertaking. I'm really not sure they can be as brutal about it as they were when they ditched IBM forzarkonite
- Intel back in the early 2000s. They have a much bigger ecosystem to support now and pissing off developers might not be what they need considering that Googlezarkonite
- and MS are very developer friendly. I'm sure they'll come up with something, but a straight switch is out of the question IMO.zarkonite
- they already did with iOS, zarkmonospaced
- I'm highly skeptical. Maybe this will push people into Linux for audio apps. No way they're re-writing Logic Pro, which has tons of old code.section_014
- Plus, I don't see Ableton, Adobe (maybe Adobe), and everyone else re-writing for these fucks.section_014
- They already are though.monospaced
- The iOS versions of these apps, while smaller and not fully featured, are certainly the groundwork for such a transition. Been done a few times before.monospaced
- mono you're downplaying a major hurdle.zarkonite
- I can see why you might say that, but it's not a hurdle they haven't seen before. They have a lot of the groundwork done with the A-line chips and Metal in iOSmonospaced
- They can push forward, say goodbye to Intel, optimize for their hardware, and provide legacy support for software that isn't updated (like they did before).monospaced
- compile to ARM is no big deal, they already do it with clang/llvmernexbcn
- FFS.. make up your fucking mind already. I actually didn't mind intel chips..autoflavour
- they will even make their own displays, having control of every component is the goal
- Hayzilla0
My Apple mouse has started cutting out connection lots recently even with new batteries.
Looking on their site for a replacement, there is a £20 more expensive option for a grey colour as opposed to silver. WTF? Am I missing why it is 30% more expensive?
- The answer, my friend, is written in the wind:
'....wHOOOoooooOOsH Apple are gouging cunts WhoooooOOOOsssH...'face_melter - FUCK YOU APPLE!utopian
- I don't have a big problem with it. I get that there is always a desire for people with more money to show it. Apple has helped by having a 'black mouse'.Hayzilla
- I was just a bit shocked as it's the first time I've seen that from them. They would have usually said it was a bit lighter or had longer battery or a light.LOLHayzilla
- Is it the same grey as Job's New Balances?face_melter
- Hayzilla: yeah they call that one a Pro a colour, see they still lie to you before they fuck you.zarkonite
- Is the black mouse half price?set
- Other than whatever markup they've added, I bet it costs more to make those since they aren't making as many. Simple economics.evilpeacock
- why the hell are you buying an Apple mouse? There are 3rd party models that are far superiormonospaced
- they won't have the same gestures, but at the same price you can get lots of buttons and stuffmonospaced
- @mono Well its work so no sweat off my sack to get an official one. But I'm still morally objecting to £100 for the colour black! Can you recommend one?Hayzilla
- I recommend the Logitech MX Master. It's $99 for all the colors ;)
https://www.logitech…monospaced
- The answer, my friend, is written in the wind:
- face_melter1
Daily reminder that Apple are fucknuts and do everything they can to prevent third-party repair and the right to repair. Again.
- so fucked upmonospaced
- ah, was wondering why my wife's iPhone no longer worked. Motherf*ckerskona
- Scumset
- I agree with set. Dirty. Can imagine if an auto manufacturer did this?Hayoth
- Innovation®utopian
- Other manufacturers probably do do this and it hasn’t been discovered or called outmonospaced
- Man this makes me mad. Having repaired 2 screens on the high street in the 10 years I've owned an iphone. £30 instead of £180. Saved £300. Money grabbing cunts.Hayzilla
- This applies to iPhone 8s only BTW. But are still pricks.Hayzilla
- detritus0
- the verge totally unbiasedly referred to VirtnetX as patent trolls :Dimbecile
- The Verge, wholly and obliviously pro-Apple? Say it ain't so!detritus
- exactlyimbecile
- Hold on - we're both idiots - this is Bloomberg, haha!detritus
- i know. but the same article at verge has a definitely pro-apple spin as you statedimbecile
- Innovation never sleeps!utopian
- Calling a patent troll a patent troll isn’t pro Apple. It’s just a fact.monospaced
- you're an idiot ben wexler, a complete idiot... and apple fanboy, i won't deny you that.imbecile
- not sure why you have to be a cunt like that with your moronic attempt to use my real name, and nothing I said here is idiotic.monospaced
- You’re a far bigger Apple fanboy than I will ever be. That’s a fact. Plus you’re being a total douche on a level lower than I would ever stoop. Congrats.monospaced
- Not to mention you’re also an absolute imbecile.monospaced
- M01XXX0
I have a super fast internet connection and Apple's own embedded videos on their website only start to play after about 3 minutes! WTF. I'm on a MacBook Pro and use Safari.
Somebody else experiencing this on this website video example?: https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/f…
Did Apple forgot to use streaming function in their videos?
- M01XXX5
You know what would be nice? If the MacBook Pro upgrades at WWDC got Apple Pencil support for their nice large trackpads. Shouldn't be that difficult for them to implement? Wouldn't have to carry a Wacom tablet with me all the time.
