Apple is getting on my nerves (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 day ago by npdean@lemmy.today to c/saltycaramelapple@sh.itjust.works

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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.

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[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

What app are you running in order to edit the text files?

My guess is you’re using something meant for word processing, not working with dev tools, which could mean you’ll run into more problems than this.

Line endings, tabs vs spaces, BOM, etc. could become hard-to-debug errors if you’re not using a tool that’s designed with code/config files in mind.

[-] npdean@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

I use SSH for most things, so it does not become a problem. For some things, I have to use a web GUI where this happened. But it is not coding that I do in the browser, I just enter some variables into docker compose files or search some things.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 points 15 hours ago

Ah. Yeah, that makes sense it would be more likely to happen with a web GUI. You might wanna make a bug report, cuz there are some things they could do to mitigate this if it seems like a common potential problem.

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