Sometimes it seems like tech firms are faced with only two options: 1) fire hordes of people that have already proven their worth by building great products/software or 2) keep them around and force them to "improve" existing technology. And yes, by "improve", I meant "completely fucking ruin". My /opt/ folder disappeared when I updated to El Capitan, and I had to execute shit in the command line to be able to see it again. Fuck that. My parents just wanted to transfer pictures between their iPhone and their computer that magically "upgraded" to Windows 10 in the middle of the night. They never accomplished such an ambitious task. Fuck that. The new Google Maps? Fuck that. Every new iTunes release? Fuck that. I should cut myself off here, but I've got an endless supply of atrocities.
It's more a combination of design by committee, "there are no stupid ideas", and business school fuckwits who feel compelled to prove their leadership by making their mark, so what you get is the centroid of "actual improvements" and "proof that not only are there stupid ideas, most ideas are stupid." The only solution I've ever come up with involved blunt instruments, and it has some obvious drawbacks.
This fucked over our radio station. Two GMs ago we had a guy that was determined to leave a legacy so he pushed through a new system that we didn't need or want, without consulting the rest of the board or our faculty advisor. Right now the board's primary concern is cleaning up the fallout, because the new system and its shoddy implementation pretty much fucked our image.business school fuckwits who feel compelled to prove their leadership by making their mark
There are at least 3 open source options way more suited for college radio...yikes. Good luck with that, feel free to send me a PM if you're ever looking for an outside opinion on this kind of stuff.
Oh, totally. Moreso the navigating your image side of things at this point. What you have is what you have for the foreseeable future.'ppreciate it. Unfortunately after a $60k investment I think the university would kill us if we tried to switch to anything else.
Yep... I went hunting for the Network Utility the other day for a "quick thing" and spent the next five minutes googling "where in the hell is my network utility?" Only to find it buried in some new folder instead of the "UTILITIES" folder where it's been for 15 years. /opt/ folder disappeared when I updated to El Capitan
My favorite is the "hold down the option key, say three Hail Marys and cross yourself in the name of Saint Jobs if you wanna see the Library folder in Finder." But hey - "all my files?" Yeah, that's really fuckin' useful. Hierarchy and taxonomy, after all, are for proles.
Microsoft has always tried to be everything to everyone, but Apple has never been pro-consumer as far as I can tell. They try to make a small set of features perfect for the majority of users, but the second you want to do anything outside their supported features you're fucked. /opt folder? You must be dreaming. I work a lot of tech jobs and developers always seem to prefer Macs. I have no idea why — they're not built for development work and to get anything at all done you have to hack and circumvent everything that comes with the system. But let's not end on a negative note. There is an example of how it can be done right. My favorite computer ever is the Amstrad NC100, an A4-sized Z80-based computer from the early 90s — sort of a proto-laptop. For the non-savvy users the keys were all color-coded for ease of use — you've got your word processor, your calculator, your address book… Savvy users could also access a BASIC interpreter, allowing them to write their own computer programs. And really expert users could get access to an assembler, allowing them to hack the Z80 CPU and even write their own OS for the machine. It was beautiful — an infinitely hackable computer that was both simple and complex. Oh, and this was also the early 90s, back when computers only ever did what you told them to do. No secret Windows 10 upgrades in the middle of the night!
We were big fans of macs when developers also had to do support work, support work not really being our jobs. Supporting nontechnical users in a more conventional unix environment is hard if you don't have people whose actual job is to be a sysadmin, and none of us are familiar with or want to be familiar with Windows. So Apple's combination of catering to non-technical users and being a unix, albeit a crappy unix, was a decent compromise. Most of us installed linux when we stopped having to do support though.
also, goddamn, six weeks ago i tried upgrading to windows 10 so i could avoid being caught by surprise like everyone else, and it totally didn't work. downloaded the file and just couldn't begin the execution. so i said fuck it, until last night when i was in the middle of a difficult lotro run my laptop spontaneously upgraded for 90 minutes after all. and then at the end it sat on a screen with the text 'your files are in the same place as usual' and nothing else for five damn minutes while i hit every button on the keyboard hoping for a change.
this is hilarious. "Hey man, I was in your bedroom, and I just wanted to tell you that I left everything exactly where I found it, cool? I promise." sorry for the late response, shit's crazy bruh. hope all's well with you, flag.and then at the end it sat on a screen with the text 'your files are in the same place as usual' and nothing else for five damn minutes while i hit every button on the keyboard hoping for a change.
Your phone's iTunes or your phone's Music? Music tries to connect to Apple Music to try to get you to buy a subscription. I have my music all local, too. At this point I assume Apple is eventually going to stop supporting music stored locally.
Thanks for the heads up. So the last semblance of the iPod is dead, then. I'll never be voluntarily updating anything ever again.
I have already suggested it to steve, but I think that I should share it with everyone. However, this comes with caveat that I have never really used Apple products. It works on Linux and similar systems, but I'm not sure to what degree it applies to Apple. First of all, to my knowledge, the only files and links to files are considered as executable system-wide without knowing the direct location are the ones located in the $PATH environment variable. You can see it with from your console: Now, you can either go around and look in these directories or use: to see all of the possible results. It obeys all of the typical regular expressions (regerx) for both path and file name. The -i flag tells locate to ignore case, so there will be no difference between /usr/bin/Network_APP and /usr/bin/network_app if your query was I hope that helps. Main benefit of using locate instead of find command is the lack of rather obtuse syntax, plus it eliminates the need for additional search with grep in my experience. Plus it's really fast. added: By the way, you don't have to specify path. But in that case you might end up having to browse through quite a lot of results. If that's the case consider something like: that will make it that much easier to browse. I think it can be universally ended by ctrl + C or escape key or just by pressing Q for quit. echo $PATH locate -ir "/some/path/" partial_file_name locate -ir "/usr/bin" net* locate partial_name | less
Thanks again for the tip Devac! if you're going to use it in OS X - you'll need to build the database first. To create the database, run the following command: http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/02/enable-and-use-the-locate-command-in-the-mac-os-x-terminal/ $ locate ? WARNING: The locate database (/var/db/locate.database) does not exist. sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist
the database has been created, this message will no longer appear. Please be aware that the database can take some time to generate; once
Yeah, in fact, that's how I found out that my /bin/ folder was still inside the /opt/ folder, which had vanished from the GUI "Finder" file tree. I still use Finder to shuffle around a bunch of data files because I'm still developing a system and don't have a naming convention yet. Anyway, thanks for dat knowledge. Apple has a pretty good tool (Spotlight Search) that does exactly what those lines of code do, with a little less hassle, but fewer options. I'm still with 'bl00, probably hopping off the Apple bandwagon next purchase. I spent a lot of money, and now it just feels like I'm getting dicked around too often. Transitioning to Linux will be something I can only afford to do when I'm not entrenched in a daily grind. Hopefully it's this side of my thesis.
Are you using -name and then greping? -regex matches the filename against a regular expression instead of a glob, but it might be a gnu extension. Main benefit of using locate instead of find command is the lack of rather obtuse syntax, plus it eliminates the need for additional search with grep in my experience.
Oh, cool. I seem to forget about that all the time, thanks for reminding me about that :D. In general I don't find find (heh) as helpful as locate though. Sometimes I can't escape -regex + grep afterwards when I'm searching for something fancy. My regex-fu is not that strong ;). Locate is a bit easier for me to use so I went with that, that's all. But I do retract part of my reason for recommending locate in place of find since I was misremembering the utility. Thanks again!
Isn't this Apple's new motto? Look - I am the deepest apple fan in the world. I really am. but this one? this particular rumor? If it turns out to be true... might actually push me over the edge. Luckily, this rumor (which has been around since iPhone 5 I think) is still in the rumor phase. I'm not suggesting it's not true... time will tell.user-hostile and stupid
This is the company that: 1) got rid of the floppy first 2) got rid of the serial port first 3) got rid of firewire first 4) got rid of non-proprietary charging connectors first 5) decided that instead of adopting a modern file system, would roll its own bastardized, proprietary bullshit system instead That shark done jumped, yo. MFi licensees must tithe Apple ten percent of their profits. That was one of the main drivers of the lightning port to begin with: you can slap a chip in there that will make your phone say "fuck you, this charger came out of the wrong factory in Shenzen, I'm gonna sit here and die instead." Putting the headphone jack on Lighting allows them to say "fuck you, your headphones didn't pay the Apple Tax, they're not going to work". Didja see the link in the article? The "maybe Lightning audio won't suck too hard" link? One of those headphones is $800, the other is $450. Me? I buy my headphones two or three at a time. They cost no more than $15 because dollars to donuts I'm going to sweat through them within a month. There is no way forward for me when fucking headphones require a DAC to work. My Mac mini died last week. Dead hard drive. Need to change the hard drive. Funny thing, though - it may just be a 2.5" drive, but it's got a proprietary connector on it, and it runs proprietary firmware. So to get my less-than-one-year-old Mac Mini to function again, I gotta install the OS on an external. Because Apple. I type this on an Air but I'm out. No more Apple bullshit in my life. They really hate their customers these days.
I guess Louis Rossman's foul-mouthed rant about Apple's attitude to third party aftermarket repairs is worth reposting here. Edit: Rant starts around 8m30. Embedding doesn't respect start times apparently.
Recently bought a 100$ charger because Apple. I can get on that hate bandwagon :( I probably need a new laptop for editing cause while my 2011 Macbook Pro works like a charm in general, it sucks too much now that I want to instal color grading software and other such pluggins. But I'm looking at a minimum 3k investment and I don't have a job. Damn. Maybe I should get a job.
i currently have like seven cobbled together "iphone chargers," one of which gives me a minor electric shock every three days or so. none of them is official, so i get the error message every time i plug them in -- but they still charge about 30 percent of the time, so i can just barely get by. it's not living, exactly, but it's an existence.
My 2008 MacBook probably should have been replaced years ago, but when I look at current options I get discouraged and buy nothing. My Mac was the first computer I actually liked, but I can't convince myself to spend $2700 on a computer. And I do have a job.
I may go that route. I don't game much, I just want something that isn't frustrating to use. Apple fit the "it just works" niche well for a lot of years. I'm not sure they still do. My other complaint is the MacBooks are no longer upgradable. My 7.5 year old laptop has had its memory doubled and has a 6x larger hard drive than new. The cheapest MacBook Pro is $1300, but I worry it'll be annoying to use in three years or worse yet, annoying to use on day one because it has a 128 GB hard drive. The reviews for Apple's wifi storage are terrible and have been for years. External wired storage is dumb for a laptop. I tried using the cloud for iTunes movies. That lasted for less than a month before a movie started skipping when the data lagged. So if I can get a laptop with memory expandable to 16 GB, a 1 TB hard drive (spinning disk is fine) and a decent processor for less than the $2500 Apple wants, it's a good candidate. The other good candidate is the sole non-Retina MacBook Pro Apple still sells. This is the 2012 model with some newer options. It maxes out at 8GB of memory but has a 1 TB spinning disk option. It can be had for $1400. Apple really does seem to be user-hostile, but isn't everybody? I have all Apple stuff, but it's because I've been even less happy with the other hardware I've tried.
https://amzn.com/B01AC40NZA That is what I got. I have friends I game with that got the 17" version for about $500 more. Memory and hard drives are upgrade-able and it runs Linux Mint when you get fed up with Windows 10. And you have enough left over to build a in-home NAS box with 10+ TB of storage, get a good wireless router that can stream your data to anything etc.
Yeah, it's bad enough that I have to use up my Nexus's charging port to use a controller or USB drive, I'm not doing this with my headphones too. Examples of shit I do every week that would be difficult/impossible with this: Hooking my phone into my speakers and charger every night Carrying one set of earbuds for all of my devices without having to carry an adapter that will inevitably get lost/broken Anything about Apple locking out competitors aside, this is just going to be annoying with very little to gain for any phone. The only possible reason I could see lightning/USB-C headphones being useful is if they provided a better sound quality, but only as an alternative to 3.5mm for high end headphones, not as a replacement. Lastly, I really like the earpod headphones that Apple makes and am going to be pissed when the 3.5mm version inevitably gets ditched to push the lightning version. Voice chat on Discord with my phone
what I don't understand is why they don't just put two USB-C ports on the phone. all problems solved. also, the quality of the sound from a USB headphone depends on it's built-in digital-to-analog converter. it's no longer the phone that has good sound or not, but the headphones themselves.
Are you aware of these devices? It may help you out at least somewhat.Yeah, it's bad enough that I have to use up my Nexus's charging port to use a controller or USB drive
I'd heard of them before, but never considered them. Seems useful enough and I could use it with my phone and other stuff too.