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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • Let me preface this with the fact that I don’t like Apple, or any major corporation for that matter.

    So, my family (including myself) have been long-time Apple users, heck, we still have our iPad 1 and a few iPods lying around (and they still work great).

    But, we’re all starting to loose trust in them. Most recently there was a problem with a screen that simply seemed to have lost touch sensitivity, it still would move ever so slightly but taps weren’t recognized and slides no longer worked, and Apple really only helped by guiding us to a new phone. Before that, a MacBook Pro’s (and yes, I know it’s not an iPhone) battery flat out died, after being replaced a year or two ago for the the same problem _by Apple_.

    Also, I’m even not tech illiterate, I know I can replace the battery and likely get it working again after some calibration and tinkering — but it’s just not worth it. The family enjoys them for their simplicity and how they “just work” but mine (and the person with the MacBook’s) confidence is swayed.

    One of the biggest problems for me is that error messages are rarely useful. If a message fails to send or iMessages it doesn’t tell you details or even a Microsoft BSOD error message that we’d make fun of for their lack of usability many moons ago, it’s just failed to send and you’re supposed to accept that it simply doesn’t work.

    So yeah, I see where you’re coming from.

    Edit: I’d like to say I’m on an iPhone 8 (stuck on iOS 16) and haven’t had too many problems personally. I think most of the issues are in iOS 17 or the newer firmware versions, but I do feel that the quality has gone downhill recently.


  • I have 22 apps in total, including system apps, and excluding Apple apps (I have an iPhone) I have 15. I think about 9 of my apps are open-source, so…

    If you count the Apple apps: 9/22 = ~0.409 (~40.9%).
    If you only count non-system apps: 9/15 = 0.6 (60%).

    I do plan on getting rid of some apps soon though, so it’s subject to change.

    Edit: Fix formatting.













  • I absolutely hate having my phone. Most people will tell me things in person, or at the very least to check my phone. Plus, I have an amazing music library, which is fantastic but raises the question of how does one properly keep track of so many files. The answer to both of these questions is my trusty iPod, it does the one thing I bought it to do: play music (and sometimes podcasts). I no longer need to worry about my family group chat while out on a walk, and it has a headphone jack (which is the only way that the thing is gonna play music, I do get rather worried that I’m gonna play something embarrassing when I’m using Bluetooth headphones on my phone).

    TL;DR: I love my iPod.



  • Daniel@lemmy.mltoFediverse@lemmy.worldFederation is kicking my butt!
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    2 years ago

    The first thing I see is that your server name is matrix.***.com, which means that users/MIDs will be @hai@matrix.***.com, instead of @hai@***.com, which assuming the use of .well-known you want the second. Other than that I don’t really see anything that’d be an issue, but again, I haven’t used Synapse. I hope that helps, keep me updated!