Fucking Apple thinks they know best...

"MUSASHI66" (musashi66) 11/05/2020 at 12:41 • Filed to: None

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...and they changed my default Photo format to HEIC - again - after I told it to use JPEG.

Now I have months of photos that can’t be used in some places unless I convert them from HEIC to Jpeg. As much as I love my iPhone, I hate Apple. I presume this happened when I installed iOS 14.

I just installed OneDrive on my phone, to sync my iPhone photos to my Windows desktop because Google Drive, which I used to use,  separated Photos from Drive because of God knows what reason. As a tech guy, I hate tech very often.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 12:50

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I used to love computers and tech and gadgets and stuff. But in the last few years I’ve really gotten over it - mainly due to things like what you are describing. Tech should make my life easier, not harder. 

interstate366, now In The Industry > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 12:51

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Thanks for this. I went to check and it had done the same.

subexpression > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 12:56

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I find it thoroughly annoying when updates flip settings that I had explicitly chosen for a reason. It’s one thing to apply a new default to a setting that has never been touched, it’s quite another to silently override my conscious decision.

When I have to do videoconferences or presentations from home I usually use my cell phone for audio to minimize contention on the last-mile broadband. Some Android update toggled wifi calling back on when I had turned it off.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 12:58

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Ugh, thanks for alerting me to this. What a crap update. Is there a batch format converter?

user314 > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 13:00

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Proprietary formats are the work of the Devil, doesn’t matter what company does it. 

Boxer_4 > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 13:00

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Apple and Google.  I haven’t run into HEIC as I’m still on iOS 12, but I’m sick of Google’s AMP webpage format for mobile and their Webp image format.

CompactLuxuryFan > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 13:01

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Luckily Macs have a built-in converter. You just have to set it up as an automation. I frequently have to do that if I’ve sent something from my phone to my computer to post here. 

CompactLuxuryFan > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 11/05/2020 at 13:06

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Macs have a built-in one. It’s an Automator action. 

MUSASHI66 > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 11/05/2020 at 13:13

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There are many ways to do it, but nothing super simple directly from the iPhone. 

MUSASHI66 > Snuze: Needs another Swede 11/05/2020 at 13:15

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Here is the deal- heic is great, and it works well on iPhone, but try uploading a heic photo to fiat500forums and it’s a no go. I just hate shit that is forced upon me. If I select jpeg, don’t change it without telling me. That’s all I ask. 

MUSASHI66 > user314 11/05/2020 at 13:15

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So true. 

promoted by the color red > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 11/05/2020 at 13:16

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Do you have a Mac? You can make a macro with Automator. 

Mid Engine > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 13:17

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I have 107 photos on my iphone and I keep getting messages I can not regularly back up my phone, I need to buy more storage. WTF?

MUSASHI66 > subexpression 11/05/2020 at 13:18

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I have to have WiFi calling on. That’s what made me use an iPhone over android years ago. I’d have WiFi calling on my Nessus but it would fail and I’d miss calls, but the icon was always on. It required restarts all the time.

Having OS change settings without telling you should be illegal. 

Tripper > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 13:19

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How bout DL them from icloud? Still get HEIC?

MUSASHI66 > CompactLuxuryFan 11/05/2020 at 13:19

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It’s not that it is hard to do. It is that I have to do it in the first place, after I told my iPhone I wanted to use jpeg as default.

Switching my defaults should never be a thing in an update. 

MUSASHI66 > interstate366, now In The Industry 11/05/2020 at 13:20

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Sure thing! 

MUSASHI66 > Mid Engine 11/05/2020 at 13:21

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That is weird. You should not need more storage if that’s all you’re trying to back up. I’ll bet you that you already have a bunch of stuff in your free 5gb. 

MUSASHI66 > Tripper 11/05/2020 at 13:21

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I don’t use iCloud. I backed up my photos with Google drive and I had them synced with my desktop. That’s no longer a thing, so now I sync them with my OneDrive. 

Nibby > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 13:25

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what the HEIC?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 13:25

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“We know better than you, pleb” - Apple, on the topic of literally anything.

MUSASHI66 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/05/2020 at 13:30

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I love my iPhone - it replaced my travel camera, my ebook reader, and I use it more than my laptop for browsing - but shit like this infuriates me. 

Snuze: Needs another Swede > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 13:36

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I’m tired of everything being needlessly “smart” and “connected”, and also crap warranties and expensive repairs to force you into new stuff. The WiFi on my 18 month old TV died recently. The warranty was only 1 year. By the time I pay to ship it back and diagnostic fees, let alone any replacement parts and labor, I’m well on the way to the price of a new TV. Coincidence, or planned obsolescence ?

Also, I got new garage door openers last night, which have WiFi. I guess if I wanted to open them from anywhere in the world I could, but why? They also have transmitters, a keypad next to the door, and some of my cars have built-in transmitters, so its not like I don’t already have multiple opening options . Still, I could see why some people would like the idea of using a phone instead of those options. But what really burns me is the courtesy lights are remote mounted and WiFi, and that’s the only way to operate them. So if I want the lights, then I have to enable and use the WiFi on the doors. Why can’t I just hard wire them?  Better yet, why can’t I buy a cheaper door opener that doesn’t have WiFi and all the other bells and whistles in the first place?

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 13:38

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New phone. Just changed. Thanks!

HammerheadFistpunch > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 13:45

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Heic sucks. It's a fine codec but it has zero support. Even divx works more places

HammerheadFistpunch > Nibby 11/05/2020 at 13:47

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Hell E xists In Camera

MUSASHI66 > Snuze: Needs another Swede 11/05/2020 at 13:52

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Well, you should be able to but plenty of openers without WiFi. Mine have it, but I went to top of the line - WiFi, belt driven, battery backup - as I wanted them to be quiet and my wife couldn’t open the double door manually in case of an outage. I can’t remember missing any features before I connected it to WiFi.

What did I get out of WiFi garage opener? My favorite is the scheduling - I have the app close the doors at 21:15 as I’ve left them open once too many times overnight.

You can also have them open for amazon deliveries if you live in a area where leaving them unattended might be an issue.

You can open the doors from anywhere in the world for others if you don’t feel like sharing your code and you didn’t bother setting up a guest code.

You can connect them to all sorts of monitoring, alarm, and house control systems.

As for the TV... most new tech is so cheap that fixing it doesn’t make financial sense. It only makes sense if you can do it in your own as labor and shipping costs too much. 

My bird IS the word > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 13:52

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MUSASHI66 > HammerheadFistpunch 11/05/2020 at 13:53

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Yup... I wonder what will happen in 15  years when I try to open these old photos with iPhone XXV. 

MUSASHI66 > My bird IS the word 11/05/2020 at 13:57

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As much as I didn’t like him, I think his personality and being anal about everything was what kept Apple on track. Now... Apple hasn’t had a fresh idea in what seems like a decade. 

ibRAD > Snuze: Needs another Swede 11/05/2020 at 13:59

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I bought the cheaper one... and then found out that if I want to use the homelink on my car, or program the remote from my other door (same company, only older) I have to buy additional adaptors.

Mid Engine > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 14:05

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The only other data heavy stuff on my phone is a personal Gmail account, and Outlook for work

Cash Rewards > user314 11/05/2020 at 14:18

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This is truly the greatest xckc ever

Tekamul > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 14:20

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Te ch is great

Tech companies can suck a fat one

user314 > Cash Rewards 11/05/2020 at 14:28

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It’s like Moore’s Law

My bird IS the word > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 14:31

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You know, I thought they might actually improve without him. Now I can see his fixation on the end product was what was holding them together.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 14:32

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It was a spendy TV - LG 65" OLED. While repair costs wouldn’t equal a new TV, they are still a good chunk of the way towards an equivalent set. The thing that really burns me is when I started having problems, I started googling and apparently this is fairly common, and the consensus is “Yeah, the wifi in these just dies, deal with it.” Like I should just expect it to break.

Re. the doors, I bought the wall mounted units, they only come one way, and that’s loaded with all the features. All the points you make are completely valid, but I don’t see myself really doing any of those things. I’m also not really interested in home automation. 

Snuze: Needs another Swede > ibRAD 11/05/2020 at 14:33

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That stinks. Do they offer like an uprated model that has all that stuff built in?  

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > promoted by the color red 11/05/2020 at 14:35

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Crap...no Macs in the house :(

MUSASHI66 > My bird IS the word 11/05/2020 at 14:40

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Yup, 100% agree. They have a great product, but they’ve had nothing but incremental improvements since  the first version of iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. We haven’t seen a radical new electronics device in a long time. 

My bird IS the word > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 14:42

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Well, there can only be so much innovation. I'm more referring to their total disrespect of their customer base.

ibRAD > Snuze: Needs another Swede 11/05/2020 at 14:50

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Just looked and no. even the top of the line doesn’t seem to come with what they call the “compatibility” bridge which is a separate unit. It is only 40 bucks though.

that solves the homelink issue. Not sure if it solves the one remote for two doors issue though.

MUSASHI66 > Mid Engine 11/05/2020 at 15:14

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iPhone or Android? If IPhone, check your iCloud. It backs up a lot of stuff by default 

DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 15:15

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Not related to phones , but I find it funny that nowadays Linux is probably the most normie friendly operating system. “just werks” more than Windows and doesn’t do stuff like this like Apple. Unless you need something like photoshop specifically , there’s pretty much no reason to use another desktop OS now.

MUSASHI66 > Boxer_4 11/05/2020 at 15:15

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I understand why they do it, but I want a choice, and once I select it, I want it to stick. 

MUSASHI66 > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever 11/05/2020 at 15:30

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It’s been years since I played with Linux, but last time I did, I installed Mint on an old laptop I wanted to sell and I was shocked that it pulled all the drivers I needed and it worked right away, with no tinkering.

I’m still MS guy, but Windows 10 has had more than it’s  fair share of issues.

DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 16:53

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It’s crazy now. I have so many problems with peripheral equipment that I don’t have on Linux. Printers, Bluetooth, even an Xbox controller made by MS worked no problem on Linux, but I had to mess with drivers for it on Windows  lol.

liam > MUSASHI66 11/05/2020 at 17:03

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Yes, hugely frustrating when Apple does that!

MUSASHI66 > liam 11/05/2020 at 17:20

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I guess it’s another thing to put in my mental bank and try to remember. 

ttyymmnn > MUSASHI66 11/06/2020 at 10:43

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Have you tried this ?

MUSASHI66 > ttyymmnn 11/06/2020 at 10:50

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Yup... Apple switched me to HEIC once before, I changed it, and it switched me again a while ago. I am uploading all my photos to onedrive and syncing them to my PC, and I’ll probably just run a converter on all of them.