dewline | Entries tagged with apple

I've got a ByMUG meeting tomorrow, so I'll be in the house for that. Bedding as laundry, maybe, too. Or that might wait another week. Depends on what the rest of the household needs to do in the morning.

Current Mood: sleepy

Since it's the first Sunday of the month, my local Mac User Group is holding a Zoom meeting today. As the website notes:

"For November’s meeting we’re going to discuss impressions of the freshly-released macOS Monterey and the MacBook Pro laptops, along with trying to answer any other iOS/Mac-related questions as best as we can.

The meeting takes place on Sunday, November 7th, 2021, at 1 p.m. and we will send the link & instructions out via the mailing list about fifteen minutes before 1pm on Sunday."

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: The Sunday Magazine on CBC Radio

New annoyance that I've been dreading. I've only had this machine running MacOS 10.13.x for about a year. Gifted by a friend from my Mac user group. Now this news re: one of my favourite pieces of software:

https://support.clip-studio.com/en-us/faq/articles/20210042

I know, I know. It was coming eventually...

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: The Current on CBC Radio

Not much to mention today.

ByMUG meeting via Zoom tomorrow.

It's stuck in "Closing the Library" mode, and has been for over 2 hours as I write this. A quick web search tells me this has been a common problem for people using Photos as part of the High Sierra version of Mac OS X. Some people have had to put up with it for 12-18 hours.

I'm not sure of which solution idea of the several published so far to trust here.

Current Mood: irritated

Numbers '08 has crashed three times on me today. I'd like to update to something more compatible with High Sierra but the App Store isn't carrying that version. If there's a legal fix for the issue, I'd be glad to know of it. Will keep looking.

(And I just found out: Keynote crashes whenever I try to launch it.)

And my address book files imported successfully into Contacts...but have since been reduced to two contacts. Not sure how that happened, and not happy about it.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home

My MacBook Pro was developing weird symptoms after I swapped in my new modem yesterday, so it became a necessity to get the file migration to the new iMac underway. A couple of false starts, but everything seems to be getting into proper order now. A few updates to some software, others look to be useless now, which is all normal enough. But the file migration took all day and most of the night yesterday into way early this morning. So I've lost a full day's job search activity.

Back now, though.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home
Current Music: "Six Feet Away" - Whitehorse

I think everything I own made by Apple is on the "vintage" list these days.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/41367/its-not-their-fault-just-their-turn-apple-adds-five-2013-2014-macbooks-to-vintage-list

I want to add "planned obsolescence" as a tag, but I'm out of room in my tags list for now.

Current Mood: sad

I spent more than a few Fridays (when I was between jobs) and Sundays (whether I had one or not) at Patty Boland Pub in the ByWard Market. Most of those Sundays were because of meetings of ByMUG, which is still an ongoing concern for users of Apple gear across Ottawa, thankfully. Patty's in the Market is no more, sadly.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: "Broken Arrow" - ABC

From Bleeding Cool, a warning about what could become a problem in terms of keeping movie audiences in suspense:

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2020/02/27/rian-johnson-possibly-ruins-mystery-movies-in-a-knives-out-scene-breakdown/

I'm with Mr. Johnson on this point. I didn't notice it in the moment as I was watching Knives Out at the cinema, but now that this fact is out where the viewing public can see it? Movie-makers and audiences alike are going to have another problem to go with the others they're already coping with. Insisting upon this contract clause will ruin some more of the fun.

Current Mood: busy

I know what the rumour mills are passing along.

I'm still not done with iTunes yet as an all-media-in-one-piece-of-software thing.

Not sorry.

Current Mood: discontent

Cleaning up some iPhoto archives tonight after re-watching Star Trek: Discovery.

Yes, I know that Apple's moved on to Photos now. I have a machine with that software loaded up. I seem to recall some issues with maintaining control over the photos I've taken and dumped from my cameras into my MacBook Pro over the years, so I'm leaving the archive in said MBP for now. If I'm remembering incorrectly, please explain what mistake I've made.

Also, I still want to upgrade the RAM and hard drive on the slightly newer MacBook-that-isn't-Pro before I move said picture archives to that machine. I've been advised by several friends in my User Group to want to switch that machine from HD to SSD, but I'm (still) skeptical about the value of the trade-offs there.

I can't afford to buy the newest gear every couple of years, and Apple management's not making it easier for me with their growing desire to minimize the ability of owners to customize our gear once we buy it.

So they've got announcements coming up at Apple.

I wonder how much corporate self-harm they're about to commit this time. Seems as if a lot of the features that have made the machines they've made and I've bought over the last couple of decades have been getting set aside because "progress" and shaping how their customers define it.

I suppose my old iBook might be able to handle 32-bit apps...?

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1249583

Current Mood: confused

The first place that ever sold me Mac gear was the Mac Group. Back then, they were a second-story walkup in an office building off of Gladstone, near the city's traffic management centre and the O-Train tracks. I still have that machine.

They're apparently gone now. Three moves later, and the website's gone, the phone number is "this cellular number is currently unassigned" and their Facebook page has been left fallow for two years, apparently.

Last I visited them, they were in a second-story walk-up off of Nelson near the Rideau Library.

I miss them.