Mastodawn

cancel Nov 16, 2023

At this point, becoming suspicious that Apple intentionally puts things into macOS to fill up your disk over time and make you want to upgrade.

This machine lost 800mb over the last two days, even though I didn't create anything or update any software.

I went looking for stuff that might have been generated. Here's one. A directory of…copies of the desktop background images (which already ship with the OS in another directory.)

macOS creates new copies at random times. Forever. What.

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msx Nov 16, 2023

@cancel what on earth lol... my experience with apple stuff is fairly minimal, but this seems about as user-hostile as the rest. only barely related, but i got my first iphone a little while ago and i don't think i've ever hated a computer more. nothing makes any sense. there is no cohesion, there is no control, things are buried in things which are buried in things, gestures are nonsense, and don't even get me started on actually getting photos/videos off the thing and then having to manually convert all their goober HEIC shit.

i am bewildered by people that will say droid is "worse", maybe an out of the box configuration, sure, but you can just change most things. here i'm stuck with somebody that thinks they know what's best for me constantly offering wrong suggestions and finishing my sentences with unrelated thoughts.

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cancel Nov 16, 2023

@msx obviously just get a mac so you can airdrop the files to yourself and deal with HEIC natively

at least iphones will go more than 26 months before security updates stop and your phone becomes a liability

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@msx you know, the first sentence was sarcasm but maybe if you thought i was an apple fanboy it would sound like i was serious. and uh, yeah i meant it to be sarcasm. because i'm reading it now and there is a chance i might have been taken non-sarcastically, because it wasn't that funny.