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atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

not joking though, being able to raise my wrist and say "ten minutes" to the apple watch for a timer, and to have the thing tap me to remind me to take my meds or to wake me up in the morning, has produced a dramatic improvement in multiple parts of my life. I no longer have to have my phone wake me up with a hideous series of sirens and naval alert tones that requires me to shake it for 30s to turn them off

the thing is a model or three out of date and the screen glass is slightly cracked and it's fine.


pendell
@pendell

Apple is a bad company in a lot of way that everyone is very familiar with at this point, but there is something to be said for the fact they seem to be the only tech giant in the world with an ethos for making products that fucking work.

Like, you can't do everything with an Apple product. That's the reason computer dorks don't like them - iOS devices don't even want you to know they're computers. But that's how Apple is able to ensure everything you can do is guaranteed to work almost perfectly, almost all of the time. The rare occurrence of a bug is on Apple's head and Apple will be the first to rush to patch it since their devices are owned by millions of people who will immediately notice those flaws.


atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

I can't watch fucking webms on this iPhone without downloading them into VLC and its idea of "files" is fake but God damn does it do everything it does do well and I no longer have to do everything myself. 10 years of using android feels like I've been banging rocks together to knap my own phone tools all this time


Ackart
@Ackart

I love to tinker with things! Android lets you mess with a lot of stuff!

And then your fucking phone doesn’t work. Your alarms don’t go off. You use the phone for a year and then need to factory reset because it’s buggy and slow

When I have the urge to tinker, I’ve got my desktop. My pile of vintage computers, my steam deck. I need my phone to be a phone at a moment’s notice, and iOS has never fucked that up for me.


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in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

my work pixel 8 has a feature where I can just say "stop" to stop the alarm, it's so cool. don't even have to have hotword detection for Assistant on (which I generally don't want)

see this is the opposite of what I want because I would mumble "stop" in my sleep and then sleep until 12:30 on a work day.

I used sleep as android and intentionally set one alarm that required me to set the phone under a bright light, and one for shaking it violently.

okay, maybe it's not great for alarms, idk, I stop my alarms on my watch, but it's great for timers, esp when otherwise occupied (e.g. cooking)

it's not without its flaws, some person on r/googlepixel had a playlist set wher one song started with someone saying "stop" and couldn't figure out why their phone didn't ring sometimes

The only issue I have in this setup is my phone, tablet and watch will all fight to be the one to accept the Hey Siri command and for whatever reason the iPad usually wins, even if it’s asleep and under a pile of stuff on my desk or wherever

yeah i miss the pebble sometimes, but since getting that first series 0 when we went on call, they've always been so much better for alarms and timers

picked up a used ultra 1 when it became clear there was no reason to get an ultra 2, and that resolved our main issue with having to charge so often

i want an ultra 2 because of the precision finding and brighter flashlight and an ultra in general because the idea of a smartwatch that is also a diving computer good to forty meters depth (and waterproof to 100m) feels completely insane and future

My dad constantly gets "News Updates" pushed to him on his apple watch, which invariably just make him mad. I've told him to just turn the dumb things off, and he tells me that he can't figure out how.

I think it's making his life worse, but I can't convince him to give it up.

in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

lol my favorite thing about iOS is how garbage it is at handling video in general. It doesn't do anamorphic stretching AT ALL so if you're encoding DVD res video (720x480 or 720x576 that is then either stretched or squeezed to the proper aspect ratio per metadata flags) it will just display it at square pixel res and look like garbage. It also understands like 3 codecs. VLC is a godsend. I love that the VLC iOS devs went so far as to include a webserver baked into the app so you can transfer files from your PC to the iOS device by uploading them to a landing page in your browser. It's not very fast but since you just Can't access the file system over USB on a PC in any way without installing iTunes or something, it's essentially your only option, and it does work.