No one can stop you ordering a huge steak and a glass of water.
We should rise above all this before we all have a nervous breakdown.
OP said "unethical answers only".
What have the Romans ever done for us, eh?
Whoa whoa whoa. As a proud English man, I can't sit idly by and let you lay all the blame on the US! England is the reason for at least 80% of the problems, with the US only really coming along after we'd set the ticking time bomb
Get the fuck out with your American exceptionalism!
Its not just capitalism, it's human existence in general. Though its fair to say that capitalism has made almost every aspect of it worse.
Took delivery of a Pixel 9 last Thursday after 16 years of iPhones. Within an hour of delivery I had it on Graphene and after a few days of VEEEEERY steep learning curve I'm really enjoying using it.
I have absolutely no idea how any of the sandboxing stuff works, and could stand to have fewer notifications warning me what the system is doing, but overall it's pretty straightforward.
I've lost a couple of podcasts to Spotify. Life goes on. I don't begrudge anyone wanting to earn money, but I won't support Spotify's practices.
There's such a wonderfully low barrier to entry these days that there'll soon be something else coming down the pipe.
I've lost a couple of podcasts to Spotify. Life goes on. I don't begrudge anyone wanting to earn money, but I won't support Spotify's practices.
There's such a wonderfully low barrier to entry these days that there'll soon be something else coming down the pipe.
As someone who's made a number of podcasts on and off over the years since 2007, much of this post resonates.
However, I take solace in thinking that a podcast is just an extension of a broadcast; where a broadcast is, well, broad, a podcast is a self contained...cast. In a pod. Broadcasting covers audio and video, so it figures that podcasting would as well.
With that in mind, my own style of podcasting, and my preferred format is personal stories. I love podcasts that are by people in their bedrooms talking about their lives, or by journalists who talk to regular folk. Regardless of what Spotify do, that style will always be out there, available on an RSS feed.
I don't use Spotify, I don't use YouTube. If I can't get it in my app then I don't listen to it. And that's OK.
I really need to get back into it though. I used to love making them.
I ended up manually downloading my subscriptions using Freetube and yt-dlp and throwing them in my Plex server. I don't watch a huge amount so I'm happy to spend 20 minutes a couple of times a week doing it. There are ways to automate the process but I've never been able to wrap my head around it.
I didn't say it could, just that it's easy to do (assuming your hardware is supported of course).
I've only been using Apple stuff since '07, but I've been through a similar thing lately. My iPhone contract was due, so after a ridiculous amount of consideration and research I ended up getting a Pixel 9, which I've put GrapheneOS on. Its a huge learning curve, but I'm glad I did it.
If I have to have a smartphone, I may as well have one that's as much on my terms as possible.
After 16 years of iPhones I switched to a Pixel 9 two days ago so I could run GrapheneOS. It took me ten minutes to install. Shit’s remakably easy to do. Assuming your phone isn't carrier locked, of course.
The $600 Mac Mini is a Steal—Until It’s a Scam
I remember in 2007, buying my first MacBook. It came with an enormous 2gb of RAM. I asked about upgrading it. The guy leaned in conspiratorially and told me that Apple's RAM upgrades were a rip-off, and that I'd be better of buying it elsewhere. So I did, for half of what Apple were asking.
This is a grift that Apple have had for far too long, and there's a part of me that's convinced that their move to soldered RAM was to stop people upgrading after the fact more than it was about SOC efficiencies.
I Wonder
Singsong congratulations from the leaders of America’s biggest companies.
Swiping in Finder
Can anyone shed any light on why you can't swipe back and forward in Finder with a trackpad? The option in Settings allows for two finger swipe between pages in eg. Safari, but that doesn't extend to Finder, and I can't work out why?
I've been able to activate it using BetterTouchTool, but it seems like a truly bizarre omission, considering how much Apple have optimised macOS for trackpad use.
I don't know why I've never really thought about it before, but now I can't stop...
Why does Automator still exist, when Shortcuts could have replaced it entirely?
First up, I realise that Automator does so much more than Shortcuts. But my question is: why?
I have a couple of spreadsheets that I want to be reminded of once a week so I can keep an eye on the dates they contain. My stupid ADHD brain is likely to forget to check them, and a reminder is only as useful as whether I'm able to act on it at that moment in time. So I've set up an automation to open them up at a specific time. Given that Shortcuts on macOS doesn't support automations (as far as I can tell), the only way to do this is;
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Create a shortcut that will open the documents I need to open.
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Create an automator application that uses a bash script to open the shortcut.
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Create a calendar entry where the alert is set to open the automator app.
So I guess I want to know why Shortcuts (for macOS) can't run automations, why Calendar can't open Shortcuts, and why Shortcuts didn't subsume everything that Automator can do? Who at Apple thought it was perfectly right and proper to have to distinct and powerful apps essentially offering the same functions, but that neither of them fully encompass the abilities of the other?
What’s the tiniest thing about iOS / iPadOS / macOS that really bugs you?
As much as I don’t like negative threads, there’s one thing in iOS that really irritates me, and I want to air it…
Pressing and holding the tab button in Safari to access tab groups, should have a haptic response.
Because it doesn’t, I often end up opening the tab view instead, so I have to huff a little, hit Done, then try again. I don’t know why it annoys me that it doesn’t because none of the other buttons in Safari do, but I feel like it should.
No, I have not contacted Tim Apple about this. Yes, I probably should.
Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff.
Recommendations for anti-procrastination apps...
I've been using the free version of Cold Turkey blocker on my Mac for a while now, but it doesn't offer an iOS/iPad app, so there's nothing to stop me from just picking up my phone to fuck about online when I should be working, so I'm not keen on spending £30 on the full app.
There are other alternatives like Freedom.to, but they want £3 a month / £25 a year, and there's a bit of me that rejects the idea of having to pay a recurring fee for the maintenance of what is essentially just a glorified IP block list. It feels kinda predatory, like those of us with ADHD have been fucked over by apps and sites being designed to be little dopamine boxes, and they have the only solution, but we have to pay for it.
So, do any of you use a similar app? If so, what, and how much does it cost?