[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 day ago

What I’d love is a MacBook Pro with a detachable screen that becomes an iPad. There’s no reason they couldn’t do it with the Airs as well.

But I feel like it’s a ridiculously obvious solution that Apple have tried out in testing and decided against for whatever reason.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 18 points 1 day ago

Fair play to you OP, for having the ability to give me a headache from far away.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 24 points 3 days ago

Who among us has never committed a tiny bit of light treason though…

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 11 points 4 days ago

As a guy in his 40s who’s been to more than his fair share of punk and metal gigs, was a welder until a couple of years ago, and as a youth thought that ear plugs were annoying: sorry, I didn’t hear the question.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 14 points 4 days ago

I recently read The Shining for the first time, having seen the movie a few times.

Yeah, I get why King was pissy. Look how Kubrick massacred his boy.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 105 points 3 weeks ago

I won’t hold my breath on Apple using this. It’d destroy their upsell from 8gb process in one fell swoop.

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Bishops Waltham palace (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 month ago by DJDarren@thelemmy.club to c/pics@lemmy.world

Well, what’s left of it.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by DJDarren@thelemmy.club to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

First up, I realise that Automator does so much more than Shortcuts. But my question is: why?

I have a couple of spreadsheets that I want to be reminded of once a week so I can keep an eye on the dates they contain. My stupid ADHD brain is likely to forget to check them, and a reminder is only as useful as whether I'm able to act on it at that moment in time. So I've set up an automation to open them up at a specific time. Given that Shortcuts on macOS doesn't support automations (as far as I can tell), the only way to do this is;

  • Create a shortcut that will open the documents I need to open.

  • Create an automator application that uses a bash script to open the shortcut.

  • Create a calendar entry where the alert is set to open the automator app.

So I guess I want to know why Shortcuts (for macOS) can't run automations, why Calendar can't open Shortcuts, and why Shortcuts didn't subsume everything that Automator can do? Who at Apple thought it was perfectly right and proper to have to distinct and powerful apps essentially offering the same functions, but that neither of them fully encompass the abilities of the other?

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 75 points 3 months ago

All that just to find that the page doesn’t have the info you needed anyway.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 72 points 4 months ago

Brit here. I’m 43, earning more than I ever have and have basically no hope of ever owning a home.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 240 points 4 months ago

OF COURSE this doesn’t apply to the UK, giving me yet another reason to wish kidney stones upon the architects of Brexit.

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Flat Roof Pub (thelemmy.club)

Thought you lot might want to know where you can buy a polar bear cub.

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As much as I don’t like negative threads, there’s one thing in iOS that really irritates me, and I want to air it…

Pressing and holding the tab button in Safari to access tab groups, should have a haptic response.

Because it doesn’t, I often end up opening the tab view instead, so I have to huff a little, hit Done, then try again. I don’t know why it annoys me that it doesn’t because none of the other buttons in Safari do, but I feel like it should.

No, I have not contacted Tim Apple about this. Yes, I probably should.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 221 points 5 months ago

Speaking as a Brit, the only way to get TLoU was to subscribe to Sky TV, which (as far as I’m aware) requires a 12 month contract. Fuck that, quite frankly.

So I took to the high seas because I could.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 95 points 7 months ago

One of the nice touches in The Last Of Us was Ellie finding pads when they were in a shop.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 106 points 7 months ago

As a Brit, I've never been more angry at Brexit than right now, when we could have been on the cusp of losing access to Twitter. I'd have been free from the temptation to lurk occasionally, but noooooo, the fucking Tories had to go and "Get Brexit Done" and so we have to still live in a world where I feel compelled to go over there and gawk at the mess.

Bastards.

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submitted 8 months ago by DJDarren@thelemmy.club to c/adhd@lemmy.world

I've been using the free version of Cold Turkey blocker on my Mac for a while now, but it doesn't offer an iOS/iPad app, so there's nothing to stop me from just picking up my phone to fuck about online when I should be working, so I'm not keen on spending £30 on the full app.

There are other alternatives like Freedom.to, but they want £3 a month / £25 a year, and there's a bit of me that rejects the idea of having to pay a recurring fee for the maintenance of what is essentially just a glorified IP block list. It feels kinda predatory, like those of us with ADHD have been fucked over by apps and sites being designed to be little dopamine boxes, and they have the only solution, but we have to pay for it.

So, do any of you use a similar app? If so, what, and how much does it cost?

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