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What killed Steve Jobs?

  • Pancreatic Cancer

    Votes: 65 12.2%

  • AIDS from having gay sex with Tim Cook

    Votes: 468 87.8%
  • Total voters
    533
AirPods Max reviews from both pros and consumers are popping up. Consensus seems to be that they're very good, if a bit heavy. Having the "digital crown" knob to adjust volume is getting raves in particular; I'm rather fond of being able to adjust volume with a knob myself so I hope that idea catches on and spreads to cheaper headphones that I'll actually be able to afford some day. Apparently the carrying case is as useless as it is ridiculous-looking, though.

However, apparently they aren't water-resistant, which is a bit of a non-starter for me personally (even if I could afford them otherwise). I don't want to pay that much for a pair of headphones and then have to worry about wearing them in the rain.

Also apparently Apple TV+ is going to have a documentary about Billie Eilish. lmao how do you make a documentary movie about an eighteen-year-old? Is it like ten minutes long?
 
Least Concern said:
Also apparently Apple TV+ is going to have a documentary about Billie Eilish. lmao how do you make a documentary movie about an eighteen-year-old? Is it like ten minutes long?
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Start with Billie opening a happy meal at McDonalds when 11, intersperse with clips of still relevant pop culture from that year like the release of the PS4, Nicki Minaj being a judge on American Idol(it was a big thing), the teaser trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 which is relevant right now, cut to the viewer feeling old.
 
Least Concern said:
AirPods Max reviews from both pros and consumers are popping up. Consensus seems to be that they're very good, if a bit heavy. Having the "digital crown" knob to adjust volume is getting raves in particular; I'm rather fond of being able to adjust volume with a knob myself so I hope that idea catches on and spreads to cheaper headphones that I'll actually be able to afford some day. Apparently the carrying case is as useless as it is ridiculous-looking, though.

However, apparently they aren't water-resistant, which is a bit of a non-starter for me personally (even if I could afford them otherwise). I don't want to pay that much for a pair of headphones and then have to worry about wearing them in the rain.
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Apple users are fans of touching each other's knobs

Seriously though, I'm not surprised they're pretty good, I'd love a pair myself but I'm happy with what I already have and an extra $550 sitting pretty in my bank account. That's the most expensive pair of non-professional headphones I've ever heard of. My Sennheiser HD 280 Pros were $75, and even stick-in-ass audiophiles approve of them. Like shit man, I ain't rich. There's no such thing as ballin' on a budget when it comes to Apple. Even waiting for those headphones to hit half price means they'll be $275.

Least Concern said:
Also apparently Apple TV+ is going to have a documentary about Billie Eilish. lmao how do you make a documentary movie about an eighteen-year-old? Is it like ten minutes long?
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Man she is like the most deep state illuminati style musician I've ever seen. I'd hate to see an honest documentary on her, I'd imagine it'd just be a two hour reel of her getting passed around ( (:_( ) while drugged out of her mind.
 
So I decided to activate my Apple TV+ 1 year free subscription, and I gotta say.. the selection is pretty sparse. Might as well call it OprahTV+
 
Does anybody know anything about the supposed slave riots in India? Heard they were apple related.
 
Montalbane said:
Does anybody know anything about the supposed slave riots in India? Heard they were apple related.
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I assume you're referring to the general strike- the largest in history- that has brought together both poor urban workers and farmers, organized by a number of genuine left-wing organizations (hence why there has been little coverage from the neoliberal MSM in the US nor the Trotskyist-infected 'left wing' media).
This is in response to the failed neoliberal policies of the disgusting President Modi, but while Apple is full of neoliberal trash, it doesn't have anything to do with them.
 
StinkleMyDinkle said:
You mean Prime Minister? But back on topic, it is fairly sus that nobody is really talking about it outside of Rossman
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Ah- I see the video you're referring to. Yeah, it doesn't really have anything to do with Apple per se. There's good backgrounders here and here. It's got a fair amount of coverage in left media, but corporate media has suppressed it for obvious reasons.
 
3119967d0c said:
I assume you're referring to the general strike- the largest in history- that has brought together both poor urban workers and farmers, organized by a number of genuine left-wing organizations (hence why there has been little coverage from the neoliberal MSM in the US nor the Trotskyist-infected 'left wing' media).
This is in response to the failed neoliberal policies of the disgusting President Modi, but while Apple is full of neoliberal trash, it doesn't have anything to do with them.
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A general strike is one of the greatest tools workers have at their disposal, and to work it requires cooperation between all ethnicities, occupations, religions, professions and other identity categorizations, and in India, that's a tough sell. Looks like they carried it out successfully, though. There's a reason the megacorporations that want us all reduced to the level of Chinese slave labor are deliberately promoting race hatred and identity politics.
 
AnOminous said:
There's a reason the megacorporations that want us all reduced to the level of Chinese slave labor are deliberately promoting race hatred and identity politics.
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Mr. Block learnt that lesson over a century ago. Pity the IWW has become just another LARP for college students.
Funny that most of these races would just be considered "white" today.
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Mr. Block learnt that lesson over a century ago. Pity the IWW has become just another LARP for college students.
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IWW turning into a LARP is the vilest thing SJWs have ever done. I want to murder and destroy and set shit on fire. We will never have the real IWW again.
 
Thing is, there doesn't exactly need to be a dedicated chip for that. Phones naturally ping surrounding towers, there's GPS, there's heaps of ways that they can be tracked.

And IFixIt or someone doing teardowns would have torn that crap down, and started identifying the chips

It's not so much that companies aren't tracking you, it's that they really don't have to be underhanded about it. You literally pay them by buying their crap.
 
Doublepost because Apple's done an impressive dumb.

An employee threatened to have the very popular app 'Amphetamine' removed from the Mac App Store due to the name and branding.

Amphetamine's an app (came around after Caffeine, a similar app that had a worse interface and was abandoned for a bit, but has been taken over by other developers) that keeps your computer awake for a set amount of time or triggers (such as CPU use or battery %), and has been around for 6 years, plus has been featured by MacRumors, MacWorld, a heap of other sites, and... Apple themselves.
When you leave your Mac idle, it smartly goes to sleep to conserve power and reduce wear and tear. But this can also stop a big download short or prevent a lengthy compile or render from finishing.

Instead of having to periodically wiggle the pointer to keep your Mac awake, launch Amphetamine and rest assured your Mac won’t sleep until you want it to.

Amphetamine sits unobtrusively in the menu bar until you Control-click it (or press Command-I) to kick it into gear. That’s it. Your Mac will stay awake until you end the session.
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Need more? Dive into Amphetamine’s preference window, where you can configure the app to let your MacBook sleep should its battery run low—and wake it up again once connected to power. Add triggers that automatically prevent or allow sleep when your Mac is connected to a particular Wi-Fi network, drive, audio output, and more.
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And if it’s a drive you want to keep from sleeping, well, the app can do that too. Pro tip: To make it easier to determine if Amphetamine is active, change its menu bar icon to an eye that stays open when the app is working—and closes when it’s not.
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Apple's quickly backed down after vocal feedback.
 
LegoTugboat said:
Doublepost because Apple's done an impressive dumb.

An employee threatened to have the very popular app 'Amphetamine' removed from the Mac App Store due to the name and branding.

Amphetamine's an app (came around after Caffeine, a similar app that had a worse interface and was abandoned for a bit, but has been taken over by other developers) that keeps your computer awake for a set amount of time or triggers (such as CPU use or battery %), and has been around for 6 years, plus has been featured by MacRumors, MacWorld, a heap of other sites, and... Apple themselves.



Apple's quickly backed down after vocal feedback.
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Amphetamine is a gateway drug to better OS’s, of course Apple would try to remove it
 
LegoTugboat said:
Doublepost because Apple's done an impressive dumb.

An employee threatened to have the very popular app 'Amphetamine' removed from the Mac App Store due to the name and branding.

Amphetamine's an app (came around after Caffeine, a similar app that had a worse interface and was abandoned for a bit, but has been taken over by other developers) that keeps your computer awake for a set amount of time or triggers (such as CPU use or battery %), and has been around for 6 years, plus has been featured by MacRumors, MacWorld, a heap of other sites, and... Apple themselves.



Apple's quickly backed down after vocal feedback.
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There's a brand called Amphetamine that makes skateboard products, including oil for the bearings. Amphetamine Oil it's called. The confused reviews on Amazon are great.
 
Lol, some new hire at apple, probably a pajeet or MAYBE a south east asian (given the v. long name comment) wrote an article dumping on them for being an insanely paranoid nepotistic shitheap.

I really, really hope that Apple's internal FBI are really called 'iBuddy's. That's great.
Checks out. It's amazing Apple produces software of the quality it does given Tim Cook's terminal AIDS and how dysfunctional they are.
 
My introduction to computing was through Windows 9x, and my introduction to smartphones was through an HTC Magic. I have no attachment to Apple beyond faint nostalgia for OS9 because we used it in our elementary school's computer lab.

With that said, I've begrudgingly thrown in my lot with Apple for the last 5 or so years. CyanogenMod helped me get a LOT of life out of my HTC Desire Z, considering how both HTC and Google opted to stop supporting it after 2012. However, I got fed up with managing custom ROMs and just wanted something that "worked."

My iPhone 6S Plus, to date, is the only smartphone that I've ever used that stayed consistently in support from the manufacturer. I even made good on the battery replacement programme and has better performance that's yet to peter out. Contrast that to my HTC Desire Z that struggles to load Google of all things.
 
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