@matdotcx “Hi, I would like an overcomplicated, less HIG-compliant, featuritis-infested, version of a perfectly stable pre-existing tool that’s shipped with the OS please!”
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the genitals of whatever pindick European bureaucrat who decided we weren’t allowed to unscrew the caps totally off bottles anymore.
@ratkins There's a consensus across the industry that this increases recycling quotas. Which is why Coca-Cola has started implementing it years before it becomes mandatory, instead of waiting until the last moment as usual.
I continue to be stunned by the bullshit that is Apple Music. I’m on a plane, I want to listen to some music. The only track I can actually play is one I played to a friend an hour before I got on the flight, because nothing else is “authorised”. I will add, this is “my” music that I bought off iTunes.
(I know technically I don’t own it, I license it, Apple sucks, blah blah, please fuck off with your Mastodon neckbeardism that’s not the point.)
What I want to know is how do I actually get this to work? Is it supposed to be possible to listen to music while in flight mode? What goat do I have to sacrifice? I haven’t been able to play an arbitrary song from my own library (including albums I’ve ripped off CD and synced through iTunes Match) for about a decade now. If nobody else can either why aren’t there mobs in Cupertino with torches and pitchforks?
After wandering around the cute little alleys behind the fancy shopping district in Barcelona for a while, it’s striking how fucking obnoxious the traffic noise is when you get back to the through-streets.
@Halle Re our conversation about how the Vision Pro could get lighter, Gruber points out that the M4’s display driver was required to run the fancy doubled-up OLED display of the new iPad Pro. What other product needs a doubled-up display driver? 🤔 Seems pretty likely they’ll jump straight to M4 for the next Vision iteration. Maybe it’ll run cool enough?
In addition, once again, if you’re trying to wave pedestrians across a) we have to be able to see you (not guaranteed through windscreen reflections) and b) we have to trust you (… not necessarily smart on our part.) https://mastodon.xyz/@xkcd/112437328685755448
When a product guy ran the place, we got great products. When a design guy ran the place, we got design (… whether we wanted it or not.) When an operations guy ran the place, we got incredible operational efficiency and “services revenue”.
Can they put a software person in charge of Apple next?
Went to pump up my tyres and noticed I’d broken a spoke 😐. No worries, I’ll just have to take the cargo bike. Oh wait, that’s the cargo bike whose rim is rubbing on the brake pads I noticed yesterday ☹️.