I don't think I will ever fully understand the appeal of Apple products outside of the allure of decades-old hype waves and incredibly successful marketing stunts and of course the Steve Jobs cult of personality.
I can't argue against that. I just find the entire ecosystem overhyped and overpriced myself :shrug-outta-hecks:
Relatable and understandable.
In a related way, some people do enjoy the simplicity and familiarity of the Nintendo franchise and its quirky way of doing things, but it sucks how fleeced they can be, and how many IPs are simply sat on and trickled out with overpriced starvation-diet schemes where fucking Ice Climbers keeps getting slopped out.
We're sending to the :gulag: and making you learn :tux: . If for your own good comrade.
I didn’t either until the recent M1 Macs. They’re top notch and since they got rid of that Job’s designer, better engineered as well. Now I hear they already dropped the ball with M2 machines.
Coming from Windows and Linux I think MacOS is a complete mess regarding usability, but it runs super smooth on M1s, especially with those 120Hz Promotion screens.
Got 2 MacBooks Pro but the only device I bought was the phone. You always get the upgrades for it, well at least for a very long time and everyone’s got the same thing…like communism!
My Marxist analysis told me Apple is the only company with no interest in selling user data to someone, but then they were caught cooking something up with Facebook…I guess the line must go up.
Coming from Windows and Linux I think MacOS is a complete mess regarding usability
:what:
I certainly didn't expect it, but it simply is a mess. First thing I did, is learn the keyboards shortcuts and boy oh boy...
Double clicking title bar sometimes maximises window just vertically, sometimes both vertically and horizontally.
What is the point of hiding windows, as opposed to minimising them with that neat animation? Confusing.
Sometimes minimise window shortcut, doesn't work on a window at all.
Sometimes both minimise and hide don't work (e.g. Docker desktop) and you actually have to quit application (3rd shortcut) to get rid of it, but there's no indication tell you that.
Sometimes you have to hold command + Q longer to quit an app, BUT NOT FOR TOO LONG or you will close other apps as well. WTF?
Sometimes full screen doesn't work and the shortcut is with the stupid FN key.
Sometimes, clicking on an app, which you can see it's running by the dot below it, doesn't do anything. Instead of showing that app up front, nothing happens at all. You can click as much as you want on it, but it just doesn't show up for some obscure reason. Annoying.
Some (?) windows sometimes always stay up front? Like Notes? Even when you click on a window below it? There's no indication this is some "special" window.
The min, max, close buttons on windows are super small and you want to use shortcuts instead...which don't work that well. Also, clicking on red cross to close the app, doesn't really close it, just hides it.
No window snapping to sides? Instead you have to get an app for it, everyone immediately gets, but Apple refuses to implement???
Hate how the End key is for end of document, not end of line. Supper annoying. The ctrl to command switcheroo is also annoying, but command is arguably better positioned.
Not to mention font rendering issues, scaling issues, stuff like needing exotic 5K monitors for the perfect "retina" picture sharpness, where you can only buy wildly overpriced Apple 27" monitor garbage (not even miniLED) you can't move up or down with another $400 and even the Apple fan boy would agree it's ridiculous, or a super fugly 5 year old LG model which looks like it's going to fall apart if you stare at it too much. There's also an Apple 32" 6k miniLED monitor for like insane $5k with like 100 dimming zones? Samsung just made one 32" 4k miniLED monitor for $1.3k with over THOUSAND dimming zones.
The whole experience isn't that smooth either, on overheating, fan spinning, Intel machines. It's just a hot mess...don't know who ever had the idea MacOS is some super UX. It's all marketing.
On the positive side, installing apps by dropping them to "Applications" is cutting-edge stuff compared to Windows and it runs super smooth, quiet and cool on M1s.
I just find Windows an absolutely clusterfuck. Trying to find another machine on the network, adding a network printer, anything to do with changing account settings in Outlook.
By the way, how are you gonna prove that I'm an alt? You know that "I" will keep denying it on "my" main. Dumbass!
So much mental wellness radiating from your 4th "not an alt" alt nazbol account. So much organizational charisma too! :data-laughing:
Shut the fuck up. You have NO authority to speak to me about organization. I will fucking bury your weakling ass.
Fine, I'm an alt. I'm bjork. Good luck proving I'm not just bullshitting you, bucko!
android is terrible, google manages to further ruin android with every release. I would prefer actual linux on a phone if it was stable/had drivers.
Every now and then I get excited about a new Linux phone project but of course they never really go anywhere. Maybe someday.
I've been wondering about Graphene OS, but I need someone tech savvy to tell me whether it's any good :blob-no-thoughts:
I remember hearing about that a while back. Is that the one that's super good about privacy?
android 12 was absolutely terrible, but i hear 13 has been kinda good
this but unironically, nobody fucking needs an 8 inch phone
even if we're talking modern smartphones there's no benefit to having a screen over 5 inches except that they're slightly nicer to watch movies on, which is something I don't do on a smartphone anyway
The rise and fall of blackberry is actually kinda wild. At their peak they had large campuses in multiple cities, and then went to the verge of bankruptcy. And all that was over the span of a little over a decade.
All phones are bad these days. My phone is from 2017. If I got a new one with comparable specs I would lose mst payments, the headphone jack, the micro sd slot, and probably the 120hz screen. Phones peaked half a decade ago
I feel like the Apple good types only exist in echo chambers anymore. Every time I see someone even try to do this they get dog piled by everyone lol
This seems as good a place as any to ask - I have a technically solid android phone, any good SNES/GBA/etc emulators I can load up on a non-rooted device?
Thanks! I grabbed John GBAC, Duckstation, and Snes9x. I'll play with Retroarch and see if I can get it!
Check out https://retroachievements.org/. It works with retroarch to keep track of achievements in retro games just like in modern systems. I found it like a month ago and it's been a lot of fun and an incentive to try new games.
My main gripe with iphones is that I can't just copy-paste mp3s on to my phone, it makes me install iTunes, quicktime etc. and generally can't use much pirated stuff easily.
the cameras suck lol I say this as a long time Android user
Pixel takes nice video but picture wise they all suck the colour out of stuff. I keep my old iPhone in my bag just for pictures.
no way, the pixels camera is better than most iphones, what are you saying
nah
I've compared side by side
it take fine pics of landscapes and stuff but it buggers faces up and sucks the colour out of em
my iPhone 7 takes better pics than my pixel 4
Android also bad if you're using Google services
Get a Chinese or Indian phone and install an open Android fork like Lineage or E or Sailfish
Also the bootloader for Xiaomi phones has an Android guy wearing a usanka with a red star if that's your thing.
