I use a lot of programming and sef hosting things at home. I have to enter passwords and write basic text files which have to be accurately read by all devices.

I, for the life of me, could not manage to solve a problem about a password. I tried many forums and what not and eventually a person on one of the forum said that my syntax is incorrect. I was so confused because I have done the exact same thing hundreds of times and it never caused an issue.

What I wanted to write was (quotes are a part of it) 'xyz'. This is what my PC writes. iOS decides that it should be ‘xyz’. There is a subtle difference in the quotes if you look carefully.

I wanted to trash by iPhone and buy an Android so bad at that moment.

Anyways that setting can be changed by turning off smart punctuation in keyboard settings. But the point is trashy defaults with no clear communication about it.

This whole post might be stupid and petty but it is pushing me to stop using everything Apple.

IMHO, Voyager has a pleasant viewing experience and a plethora of ways to customize your feed (and scrolling). The dev @aeharding@vger.social is quick to assist with questions and bugs.

Artic has more detailed information on the Sidebar and I appreciate that content is embedded (it’s just aesthetically pleasing to me, anyway). Hopefully, it hasn’t been abandoned.

What’s your favorite?

i’ve never made a Mega thread before, and I have no idea how to do it, but would anyone be interested in chatting and/or bitching about our experiences with this liquid glass nonsense?

first thing I’ll pointed out that you may notice is that it has a nasty habit of not capitalizing the first letter in the first sentence that I type in a text input box. to clarify, it will type it, but then when I submit it changes it to a lowercase. I can’t honestly fathom this one and I don’treally want to think too deeply about it.

Siri’s spoken responses like “OKAY” after turning off lights are often unnecessary and disruptive—especially at night. I know the lights have turned off; I can see it. But Siri insists on announcing it anyway, even when it’s late and the room is dark. And she DOESN’T do this in the the day!

There is currently no way to suppress this behavior on HomePod. “Sound When Using Siri” only disables the activation chime—not the spoken confirmation itself. I’ve tried lowering Siri’s volume manually, but that affects everything else too.

Please consider adding a setting to:

• Disable verbal confirmations for HomeKit commands
• Or at least suppress them automatically during late hours (e.g., based on Night Shift, Sleep Focus, or time of day)

That's obviously what I was trying to do by clicking Go to Album!!!!

cross-posted from: https://social.edu.nl/users/foxy/statuses/114818047976427238

How do people help MacOS GUI applications find user-installed executables on the
system?

@apple_enthusiast

I have been helping a friend with a very modern Macintosh follow
@bounga's tip
(https://www.bounga.org/tips/2020/04/07/instructs-mac-os-gui-apps-about-path-environment-variable/),
but it does not seem to work anymore. Which is weird, since it was updated in
July 2023.

#MacOS

recently, i've been trying to make my way out of the apple ecosystem. im on the verge of deleting my apple account, but cant find a way to use airtags wo an apple account. i think that may be the only constraint.

ive logged out of my iphone and all apps i need are already loaded & are still working properly.

no issues on my macbook either since use terminal for most things. i cant remember using the app store at all on the macbook.

anyone have tips, tricks, notes? please and ty!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/42903494

Apple is seeking external models to run on its Private Cloud Compute servers

I just tried to create a basic Shortcut that opens a YouTube link in Brave and strips out some tracking junk. In theory, this is what the Shortcuts app is made for. In reality, I feel like I was trapped in a procedurally generated UI puzzle designed by someone who hates their own users.

I started with a simple clipboard check. Then I tried to combine two pieces of text: a Brave URL prefix and the cleaned link. Easy, right? Except not one part of this was straightforward. The “Combine Text” action doesn’t show an “Add New Item” option unless you first pick a variable, but it also won’t show variables unless you tap them in exactly the right order. I kept seeing placeholder blocks with no explanation. I tapped into fields and got autocorrected. I typed out a variable name, only to find out that this does absolutely nothing. You have to use the magic wand to select the actual value, or it doesn’t work. And this is never explained.

The entire app is full of disappearing options, invisible logic paths, unlabeled state changes, and behavior that breaks if you so much as look at it wrong. At one point, the app simply refused to let me add a second input to a Combine Text block. I had to delete it, re-add it, and then tap around in exactly the right order to make the UI un-break itself.

I never even got it working. I go too frustrated and decided to take a break and revisit it later. It wasn’t even frustrating in a normal way, it was exhausting. This was supposed to be the easy, Apple-style way to automate tasks. Instead it felt like a hostile interface wrapped in iOS visual polish. The worst part? I don’t think this is a bug. I think it’s designed this way on purpose, so us plebs don’t get too big for our britches, and try to breach the garden wall.

Shortcuts is supposed to make automation easier. What it actually does is hide every single useful function behind inconsistent menus and input traps. I’ve written code in a terminal that felt friendlier.