Apple has an app where you can brew your own beer through the USB, incredible technology but missed opportunity not calling it iBrew
It's a macOS centered package manager, like apt or yum in Linux. It's great for installing GNU tools and other tools that don't come standard in macOS.
I'd change, but all my browsing systems are linked with Chrome. Guess I could just relink everything with Firefox, but I'm lazy.
Firefox is the best browser, but it hasn't been working for me with the M1 chip. Using Safari in the meantime and it's way nicer than since I last used it, especially with the fingerprint ID.
Chrome works fine on my Mac Mini. I use Firefox on my iPhone since it has night mode for websites. I stick with Safari on my iPad because I basically only use it to dick around while at work or to read books/comics
That's fine. Run any process monitor and check the usage for Chrome vs Firefox. Any device you're running Chrome on is objectively running slower than with Firefox. Their builtin security is better, as well.
If it’s enough to noticeably effect normal performance then one should be looking into getting a new machine.
They also developed Lockwise, which is a great password manager if you have Apple + Windows/Android devices.
iPhone 12 mini. Randomly drops service completely between 5g and LTE towers and won’t load pics or gifs in iMessage or sms. Regularly won’t send texts. Shit is annoying as fuck. Should’ve known better than choosing to be a release day guinea pig.
I have a mini and haven’t experienced any of those issues. Is it connecting to public wifi networks by chance? Have had that issue in the past.
Not that I’m aware of, but I’ll turn off the WiFi when I’m in the car the next couple weeks and see if it happens. The dropping of the signal seems to only happen like once a week. The texting problems occur continuously regardless of 5G, LTE, of WiFi.
Weird, even though my phone is brand new, I deleted cache in my mobile web browser, and now I’m receiving pics and gifs again, at least on iMessage.
Ordered the new Air M1 512 GB after using a 13” MacBook Pro for the last 8 years. Excited to be upping my game after reading the near-universal rave reviews about this new Air. Always been skeptical of Airs, but this one is apparently that good. I’m not a coder, gamer, etc. so I figured I didn’t really need a Pro this time around.
We are same. Pulled the trigger on an M1, 16 GB memory Air yesterday. Have bounced around from Chrome to Safari to Firefox, but still have things lock up and the fan go nuts on my old Pro any time I have more than a few tabs open. If the reviews are any indication, shouldn't have to worry about that anymore.
I was in a similar boat. I'd been using the same 11" Air since 2011. It's such a huge upgrade, although I think I liked the old keyboard slightly better. I've only had things using Rosetta slow down at all.
One consistent problem I’ve had with airpods and AirPod pros is that I’ll be listening to a podcast then stop to do something for 20-30 minutes, come back and put my AirPods back in and hit play...and it starts playing the same song from the music app, one that I haven’t tried to listen to in months. And the app isn’t even open. Like, thanks airpods, I did just want to go back to my podcast, but sure I’ll listen to Crumble by Calexico first. WTF?
My car Bluetooth does this if I am listening to a podcast or SiriusXM through my phone and get interrupted by a call. For some reason it give Music app preference and place some ABC song that I had for my daughter.
I had that same problem and just ended up deleting the Apple Music app. I haven't really found a good replacement yet, but at least I don't have to worry about it taking over when I rarely used it.
My armchair quarterback analysis is that this is an iOS issue, not an AirPods issue. iOS is pretty aggressive in killing apps that aren’t being used. Even if you didn’t “close” the podcast app by swiping up, its effectively been shut down and state saved for when you re-open. When you hit play again, iOS doesn’t see an active audio app and defaults to Apple Music. It’s a necessary evil — although arguably less necessary with how powerful phones have become — for systems that are more resource constrained.
So these air pods pro are garbage as fuck. Less sound quality than over ear beats and they literally hurt my ears.
I changed the tips but it’s the curve of the pods themselves where they go over the inside of the ear. It’s like that part of my ear is too fat and it’s getting pinched in that curve the whole time I’m wearing them. I’ve never liked formed in ear headphones. Only ones I ever found that I liked were these cheap Sony ones that were just a 90 degree angle and straight into my ear. Hate it cause the pods are really nice with the transparent mode working from home with a baby.
When I receive a spam call or something similar, the number shows up on my screen as 11 consecutive digits without any dashes or parentheses. I have a 12 with Verizon. It never did this prior to my 12. Anyone experience anything similar?
I’m on a 12 with Verizon. Nothing like that, but I am getting an absurd quantity of them starting just this Wednesday. It’s 9:42am and I’ve received six spam calls already today. Thank god for the silence unknown callers function.
They occasionally show up as Potential Spam but otherwise I just ignore every phone call from my phone’s area code and the state of FL. edit: and by ignore I mean it doesn’t ring because I have the silence unknown phone numbers turned on in Settings.
my 2018 MacBook Air has been terrible with battery lately. literally in the last 40mins it's dropped 12% battery. found a spot that'll give me $600 for it. how is battery life on the new M1 machines? anyone tried CrossOver? supposedly runs windows apps w/o installing windows https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover