Topic: The newbie apple thread

[ˇBasta Ya!]

Did your cell leader tell you to say that?

We do not talk about melvin outside of the fraction.

[Brian Blessed]

We do not talk about melvin outside of the fraction.

His mysteriousness is addictive. If I sign over all my paychecks, sell my house and give him the money will he bless me with a Mac and plain white smock? I am ready to become a Branch Macvidian.

[PaulF]

Ah, but can you do THIS with a mac?

[Barney_Rubble]

How many Mac users does it take to change a lightbulb?



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[Brian Blessed]

How many Mac users does it take to change a lightbulb?



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None, they make lowly PC users do such menial tasks.

I won't win

[mobydick]

How many Mac users does it take to change a lightbulb?

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Don't really need lightbulbs, doing our bit for the environment, my keyboard glows in the dark.
Quite handy really.

[GinKop]

I turned on my PC today for the first time in a week - spent the first 10 minutes downloading new virus definitions. AV crashed halfway through. Restarted my PC (which took more than two minutes). AV finished downloading. 15 minutes gone. Of my life. Updating AV. Which I don't have to do on my mac.

I can remember the dark days before I had my Steve Jobs.

Nidge drives a very nice BMW, thank you (and it's doesn't have any apple stickers on it)

I always saw you as an Audi TT kind of hairdresser guy.

[nidgemo]

I turned on my PC today for the first time in a week - spent the first 10 minutes downloading new virus definitions. AV crashed halfway through. Restarted my PC (which took more than two minutes). AV finished downloading. 15 minutes gone. Of my life. Updating AV. Which I don't have to do on my mac.

I can remember the dark days before I had my Steve Jobs.

I always saw you as an Audi TT kind of hairdresser guy.

I'm 6'4 and about 16 stone. I doubt I'd even GET in a TT, much less drive one.

[nidgemo]

How many Mac users does it take to change a lightbulb?



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Mac lightulbs, like macs, just work. Therefore they don't need changed.

[hooded claw]

I always saw you as an Audi TT kind of hairdresser guy.

Mazda MX-5. That's your crimpermobile.

[Barney_Rubble]

I'm 6'4 and about 16 stone. I doubt I'd even GET in a TT, much less drive one.

JCB then ??

[Brian Blessed]

Mac users don't use light bulbs because they're narrow-minded zealots who only use Apple products, no matter how shitty (except the odd token moan to show how unbias they are) and apple don't make lightbulbs.

[Mudface_]

Mac lightulbs, like macs, just work. Therefore they don't need changed.

Mac lightbulbs

I suppose if Apple did make bulbs, they'd be incompatible with 95% of light fittings, cost twice as much and you'd need half a dozen of them to equal the output of a normal one. Oh, and they'd be used by c*nts. (I'd put a smiley here, but I used up my daily quota in the first sentence.)

[mobydick]

Mac users don't use light bulbs because they're narrow-minded zealots who only use Apple products, no matter how shitty (except the odd token moan to show how unbias they are) and apple don't make lightbulbs.

Go on, admit it. Your lightbulb has burnt out and you don't know how to change it, do you?   

[Brian Blessed]

Go on, admit it. Your lightbulb has burnt out and you don't know how to change it, do you?  

It'll work once I get rid of the virus!

[mulfella]

Too quiet in this thread.

Apple rapes the planet: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14107

[The not so lazy.boy]

How many Mac users does it take to change a lightbulb?



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Im gonna say 2...

1 to press eject and then insert the new light bulb, and the other 1 to design a t-shirt!

[Lo]

Ah, but can you do THIS with a mac?

Thats fab

[Buck Pete]

Guys. Just picked up a new iPhone 15 on an upgrade and want to utilize it as best I can, so looking at a wireless charging

What am I missing here?  So instead of plugging a USB-C cable directly into the port on my iPhone.  Do I just place my phone onto the charging pad?

Can someone explain what exactly are the benefits of wireless charging?    What I just described above will save me about a nanosecond of time and there is still a need for a wire to be running from the wall power outlet or laptop.

This is a dedicated idiot thread so don't judge me!!

[SP]

The socket where the lead connects is a common point of failure in any phone.

[Zlen]

And the connecting jack is the common failure point of any cable. So it’s simply more convenient and durable.

[Buck Pete]

Nice one for the replies guys.

Makes sense.

[Buck Pete]

You'll see wireless charging in cars which also connects it to CarPlay, and probably built into desks, connected to Apples HomeKit, etc.

Can definitely see them adopting it at some point.

Never.

It's pointless.  Why have a splat of a wireless charger on your bedside table with your phone on it?

It's more "stuff".  That needs plugging in to, always the chance you knock the phone off etc too.

Easier and more elegant to plug it in.

If they'd wanted wireless charging it would have been on the 5

Yes Tepid.  Yes.

[TepidT2O]

Yes Tepid.  Yes.

Shit.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

Shit.

Ignore him, you're a visionary.

[afc tukrish]

Ignore him, you're a visionary.

Tepid Visionary, sounds like an entry for the name a Racehorse thread...

[PaulF]

And the connecting jack is the common failure point of any cable. So it’s simply more convenient and durable.

I've got 'magnetic' charging cables. You plug a dongle thing into the socket on your phone, then the wire just connects to it by magnet.
Solves the problem of cables being plugged in and out of the phone, the cables do need to be replaced (not expensive), and if you charge in multiple locations you need cables in all of them.
But no wear and tear on the phone, and there's something satisfying when the magnet connects.
Probably too unsightly for apple folk though.

[Claire.]

Probably too unsightly for apple folk though.

Yep, it sounds disgusting 😂

[Zlen]

Horrible, nearly vomited my breakfast here.
I bet that cable isn't even white?