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Jake Havechek

6 days ago

Article writer is a wimp. As for myself, I don't allow Apple products in my house.

allears

6 days ago

Get a farkin iPhone or don't. In either case, don't whine about it.

Gubbo

6 days ago

Jake Havechek: Article writer is a wimp. As for myself, I don't allow Apple products in my house.

I was on a 15 year streak.

Then I got an M2 Mac. Now I hate the software. It's so bad I had to install a program just to snap a window to the left half and right half of the screen.

But damn if it isn't responsive and with great battery life

Naido

6 days ago

This started out as a promising horror movie in which a bunch of assholes are brutally murdered in Portugal, but it became a complete disappointment.

brokenbiscuits

6 days ago

Gubbo: Jake Havechek: Article writer is a wimp. As for myself, I don't allow Apple products in my house.

I was on a 15 year streak.

Then I got an M2 Mac. Now I hate the software. It's so bad I had to install a program just to snap a window to the left half and right half of the screen.

But damn if it isn't responsive and with great battery life

I've had Apple computers off and on since the Pismo PowerBook G3. There are always usability issues like that. I currently have a M1 Pro MacBook Pro that I (mostly) like. But simple stuff like keeping it from going to sleep or snapping windows to halves/quadrants of the screen require shelling out money in the app store. Which I think is intentional at this point.

Gubbo

6 days ago

brokenbiscuits: Gubbo: Jake Havechek: Article writer is a wimp. As for myself, I don't allow Apple products in my house.

I was on a 15 year streak.

Then I got an M2 Mac. Now I hate the software. It's so bad I had to install a program just to snap a window to the left half and right half of the screen.

But damn if it isn't responsive and with great battery life

I've had Apple computers off and on since the Pismo PowerBook G3. There are always usability issues like that. I currently have a M1 Pro MacBook Pro that I (mostly) like. But simple stuff like keeping it from going to sleep or snapping windows to halves/quadrants of the screen require shelling out money in the app store. Which I think is intentional at this point.

Someone described it to me.

Windows will just do what you want out of the box
Linux will do what you want once you set it up
Apple will do what you want once you pay someone

/it just works

Maybe you should drive

6 days ago

I couldn't finish that. I suspect there are a few reasons this writer was omitted from the text group, but his phone was not one of them.

puckrock2000

6 days ago

So these people have never heard of WhatsApp, GroupMe, or Discord?

TofuTheAlmighty

6 days ago

If this link isn't the most vapid greenlight in Fark history, it's assuredly top five

WhackingDay

6 days ago

Zealotry in all its forms is idiotic. I hate it with the heat of a 1000 suns.

Some Junkie Cosmonaut

6 days ago

puckrock2000: So these people have never heard of WhatsApp, GroupMe, or Discord?

Those wouldn't provide a 'good reason' to exclude the writer

Unscratchable_Itch

6 days ago

Most of my family have iPhones. I have Android on a Surface Duo 2. We do not have the problems mentioned in the article. Once again, I feel like I must be doing something wrong because I don't have the same technical problems that others seem to have.

To be fair, I do not like Apple products or Android, even though I have a M1 Mac Mini and an iPhone 8 that I use for development. I loved my Lumia 950XL running Windows 10 Mobile - RIP.

Wine Sipping Elitist

6 days ago

Android is Linux.

So that means if you know what you're doing, it's great, otherwise it's confusing.

I bought my dad an iPhone because I didn't want to teach him how to use his phone. One day, I saw a bunch of iphone charges on my card and apparently he went crazy buying a bunch of stuff and I left my card in his phome wallet. Welp, that was your birthday present, old man.

Cythraul

6 days ago

I try not to be prejudiced towards Apple product users. However, every time I speak to one they go on and on about how much they like their Apple product that it crosses a line of normal enthusiasm. Then it doesn't help when they look at me like an alien when they find out I don't use an iPhone.

Sliding Carp

6 days ago

Jesus. We're genuinely doomed as a culture, aren't we?

Fursecution

6 days ago

I liked how she thinks Google, a company with the product attention span of a goldfish, should come up with yet another solution to messaging.

/Stopped reading when she called Samsung phones "cheaper"

leeksfromchichis

6 days ago

Naido: This started out as a promising horror movie in which a bunch of assholes are brutally murdered in Portugal, but it became a complete disappointment.

Watch Dagon if you want that kinda story.

Lovecraftian horror is so good once you deracify it. His views on race, extreme in his own day, have aged poorly. And for gods' sakes don't google his cat.

Lsherm

6 days ago

Gubbo: It's so bad I had to install a program just to snap a window to the left half and right half of the screen.

BetterSnapTool? It's the first thing I bought like eight years ago when I got my first modern mac at work. I simply could not believe Microsoft managed to put something so useful in Windows and Apple seemed to think irregularly shaped windows all over the desktop were acceptable.

Gubbo

6 days ago

Lsherm: Gubbo: It's so bad I had to install a program just to snap a window to the left half and right half of the screen.

BetterSnapTool? It's the first thing I bought like eight years ago when I got my first modern mac at work. I simply could not believe Microsoft managed to put something so useful in Windows and Apple seemed to think irregularly shaped windows all over the desktop were acceptable.

I think it was called rectangle.

/Linux mint also worked just fine out of the box for this

Neondistraction

6 days ago

If you seriously think less of a person because they have a different brand of cell phone then you are a vapid coont and I'm glad to not associate with you.

AppleOptionEsc

6 days ago

*Click to keep on reading*

That's as far as I got. I'm a shiatty CSB writer, but not even interesting to get over the fact that you start by telling me things that obviously won't matter.

Burra

6 days ago

Presumably they were all already using one or more apps that better suited the purpose and facilitated cross comms, so the good news is that whilst you've discovered that you don't have any friends, potentially they weren't merely arseholes, but really stupid arseholes.

Ninja Lawtalker Guy

6 days ago

I used an Android phone for years while my wife used an iPhone, and yet somehow our marriage survived. And come to think of it, I was never excluded from group chats among my iPhone using friends.

Weird that the writer experienced this incredible (and very clearly real) discrimination, and it surely has nothing to do with them being insufferable.

Maybe you should drive

6 days ago

Neondistraction: If you seriously think less of a person because they have a different brand of cell phone then you are a vapid coont and I'm glad to not associate with you.

That's exactly the type of nonsense I'd expect to hear from an Android user.

mindset zero

6 days ago

If your "friends" make fun of you because of your phone. You need new farking friends. You also should not give a shiat.

Jim_Callahan

6 days ago

"I never thought it was real"

It isn't. After reading that incredibly whiny rant where you cast yourself immediately as the victim over something completely farking innocuous, it's very obvious that the actual reason you're not included in group planning chats and such is that, y'know, you do shiat like that. You are what TVTropes would call "the friend nobody likes".

You're annoying the fark out of everyone because of your shiatty personality, but they're not willing to tell you that to your face because then they'd have to, y'know, deal with you blowing it up into a major woe-is-me dramatic monologue for the rest of their farking lives, and it's pretty clear you wouldn't actually learn anything or change your behavior so there'd be no point regardless.

Thus, quietly ghosting you instead.

// Apple deliberately designing their products somewhere between "badly" and "objectively incorrectly" just to artificially create incompatibility and isolate their users in a bubble for more effective gaslighting actually is a real thing and one of the company's shiattier behaviors... but, like, come the fark on. You're talking about people you speak with in person on a regular basis; the problem is clearly you, not whatever polite excuse they're using to brush you off.

cherryl taggart

6 days ago

I have never had an iPhone or any other apple product, while I have managed to have many friends and even family members in my own house that love Apple products.

As techno foolish as I am, I still manage to connect and communicate regularly with all of them.

It's a mystery why this "writer" is regularly left out of conversations. Couldn't have anything to do with a personality issue, could it? Must be tech.

Flappyhead

6 days ago

leeksfromchichis: Naido: This started out as a promising horror movie in which a bunch of assholes are brutally murdered in Portugal, but it became a complete disappointment.

Watch Dagon if you want that kinda story.

Lovecraftian horror is so good once you deracify it. His views on race, extreme in his own day, have aged poorly. And for gods' sakes don't google his cat.

Given the widespread coverage(finally) of police violence and targeted enforcement towards blacks and other minority groups, a tweaked version of The Horror at Red Hook could hit hard without having to be preachy.

Jensaarai

6 days ago

Meanwhile, I sat on the sidelines, stewing over all of the bad travel ideas that were surely going unchallenged.

AKA: The real reason your friends excluded you from the planning phase. Be glad they still invited you along, whiny writer person. Apple users may be cultists, but you're insufferable.

bingethinker

6 days ago

I've never had a problem positioning windows where I want them. And one of the standard control panels lets you choose when your computer goes to sleep, and "never" is an option.

Concrete Donkey

6 days ago

TofuTheAlmighty: If this link isn't the most vapid greenlight in Fark history, it's assuredly top five

It cant even make the top 1000 because of all the ethan spam in stem for the past few years

WGJ

6 days ago

I clicked on the link looking for granny videos. I quickly left after a few sentences of that drivel.

Cythraul

6 days ago

WGJ: I clicked on the link looking for granny videos.

untoldforce

6 days ago

When I want to get planning done, the first thing I think of is a farking group text with a dozen people.

ModernLuddite

6 days ago

I hope they all get Covid in Italy.

cryptozoophiliac

6 days ago

Sliding Carp: Jesus. We're genuinely doomed as a culture, aren't we?

Everyone's getting smarter.

/s

born_yesterday

6 days ago

I comfort myself knowing that for Lovecraft, walking down the city street was a terrifying Lovecraftian nightmare.

ITALIANS!!!

Mindlock

6 days ago

I see Google is getting more sophisticated in their ad campaigns against iMessage. It would be a lot more convincing if they weren't just trying to get everyone to go along with their lousy standard of the month. Sure iMessage is a prison, but it's one that serves honey. Google wants everyone to use their prison where you drink stale bong water and have centipedes crawling on your genitals.

Some Junkie Cosmonaut

6 days ago

untoldforce: When I want to get planning done, the first thing I think of is a farking group text with a dozen people.

Yes, but if you're insane enough to travel with a dozen people, all with their own brillllllliant ideas - you take your life into your own hands if you don't check with the others

sinko swimo

6 days ago

Neondistraction: If you seriously think less of a person because they have a different brand of cell phone then you are a vapid coont and I'm glad to not associate with you.

"...I can't get no...satisfaction.."

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account

6 days ago

WhackingDay: Zealotry in all its forms is idiotic. I hate it with the heat of a 1000 suns.

You will be moderate and rational in all things or we'll kill you.

The Weekend Baker

6 days ago

iMessage, the software that comes preloaded on Apple products that allows users to text within the confines of a sleek interface, in a stream of chatty discourse that constantly updates across all their Apple devices, completely implodes when it tries to reach a smartphone outside of the Jobs Network.

I'm the only Android user in a family of Apple users, and there's an easy workaround for this. I don't know what it is specifically, but we don't have an issue with communicating with each other via SMS.

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account

6 days ago

Useful?

I farking HATE when Windows suddenly decides to change the window size on me, doubly so when you drag a window too close to the top and it goes FULL SCREEN.

KILL THAT. KILL THAT WITH FIRE. KILL EVERYONE WHO THINKS THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA.

THEN KILL BOB. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID, BOB!

Ketchuponsteak

6 days ago

puckrock2000: So these people have never heard of WhatsApp, GroupMe, or Discord?

No, they bought Apple products.

The EU is going to force interoperability soon though.

NathanAllen

6 days ago

If they don't invite you to the group text to plan the vacation then they're not your friends and you're not invited.

brokenbiscuits

6 days ago

bingethinker: brokenbiscuits: Gubbo: Jake Havechek: Article writer is a wimp. As for myself, I don't allow Apple products in my house.

I was on a 15 year streak.

Then I got an M2 Mac. Now I hate the software. It's so bad I had to install a program just to snap a window to the left half and right half of the screen.

But damn if it isn't responsive and with great battery life

I've had Apple computers off and on since the Pismo PowerBook G3. There are always usability issues like that. I currently have a M1 Pro MacBook Pro that I (mostly) like. But simple stuff like keeping it from going to sleep or snapping windows to halves/quadrants of the screen require shelling out money in the app store. Which I think is intentional at this point.

I've never had a problem positioning windows where I want them. And one of the standard control panels lets you choose when your computer goes to sleep, and "never" is an option.

*sigh*

1) Not position, snap. It's a lovely little feature of other, modern operating system graphical user interfaces where you drag a window to a side or corner (or press a key combination) and it automatically positions itself to that side in full or half height accordingly. It's especially useful on ultrawide displays. My Windows 11 system does it just fine, as does my Arch system running LXDE.
2) Yes, yes. Power Management. Which is helpful if you're looking for additional, manual steps to stop it from going to sleep SOME of the time. You get the joy of opening up the settings, changing the power plan, closing, and then redoing EVERYTHING once you are done. It's so CONVENIENT! On Linux or Windows I have to do something barbaric like run a small script which keeps the system active while it runs.

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account

6 days ago

brokenbiscuits: 1) Not position, snap. It's a ~~lovely little feature~~ idiotic violator of the principle of least surprise and hides other information ~~of other~~, ~~modern~~ on poorly designed operating system graphical user interfaces where you drag a window to a side or corner (or press a key combination) and it automatically positions itself to that side in full or half height accordingly. It's especially useful ~~on ultrawide displays.~~ nowhere. My Windows 11 system does it just fine, as does my Arch system running LXDE

FTFY. HTH. HAND.

BeesNuts

6 days ago

untoldforce: When I want to get planning done, the first thing I think of is a farking group text with a dozen people.

This was my first takeaway. I imagined this group landing in two different airports a week apart, and several members of each sub group getting lost and missing an important train. By the end of their vacation, half of them don't know what country they are in anymore, the other half have fallen into open sewer grates.

I *barely* trave, and even I know that if you have more than 10 people, pick a group leader. Everybody else puts up *destination* ideas. Not itineraries, but "I'd like to see..." Leader plans 1 or *maybe* 2 itineraries that attempts to hit destinations for everybody. If you can't come to consensus, you can split up between the two plans when you get there, if you're not an idiot.

Or you can all scream at each other in an open text thread, have no idea what the plan is when you land, and spend the entire trip arguing with each other.

Also, Apple products are bad. But so are Androids.

BeesNuts

6 days ago

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: brokenbiscuits: 1) Not position, snap. It's a lovely little feature idiotic violator of the principle of least surprise and hides other information of other, modern on poorly designed operating system graphical user interfaces where you drag a window to a side or corner (or press a key combination) and it automatically positions itself to that side in full or half height accordingly. It's especially useful on ultrawide displays. nowhere. My Windows 11 system does it just fine, as does my Arch system running LXDE

FTFY. HTH. HAND.

Oh yeah? Well my mouse has multiple buttons.

/Also, on an OS called "Windows" which is built on "windows" that you have been able to move around in the same ways since 1995, it's not exactly astonishing when you move your window to the edge of the screen and it displays a ghost image of what's about to happen.
//Now, the feature where rapidly moving a window around your screen *minimizes everything else*?
///That one can burn in hell.

Veloram

6 days ago

Apple users are the vegans of the IT world. They can't wait to tell you they use an iPhone... until they see you have a Galaxy ZFold, then the envy is palpable.

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