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- hydro742
- Loved my Power Mac G4....this is when Apple was fun and actually worked properly.utopian
- This is when you had to his Save every few minutes because their machines crashed that often. How could you forget?monospaced
- 1997 right here I suppose. Yeah. Not really the good old days of apple reliability.monospaced
- Blue pill? Red pill?grafician
- I remember the "Smurf" G3 launched with buggy ATI drivers that locked up OS9 all-the-time. Was patched quickly, but Classic macOS never had protected memory.evilpeacock
- ... yet decades later I had regular GPU-driven kernel panics on my Big Sur Mac Pro for 6ish months before a patch was issued.evilpeacock
- lol that's some rose tinted glassesinteliboy
- The old school clear speakers are so cool.Frosty_spl
- I wonder where all that plastic is now? Landfill? Recycled? Burned?shapesalad
- At my first workplace as a GD operator I had a PowerMac then I was moved to a subsidiary to do webdesign and got an iMac, that is when I started to hate Apple.sted
- Macs were way less stable before OSX which is still a year or two away.CyBrainX
- Those were good times except for that mouse. Kensington Trackball ftw :-) CRT weighed a ton lol.Squiddy
- i still have my cube, and an old g4 kicking aroiund somewhere (the g4 tower doesn't work - i think the pram battery died. the cube works fine)hans_glib
- Still have my 2400c and Lombard G3prophetone
- BusterBoy0
My Macbook Pro 2012 has been running fine as a secondary device just for some testing etc for ages...battery died a long time ago so it's just been running off the plugged in power cord...no major dramas. I do normally just leave it running or in sleep mode...I rarely turn it off.
This last weekend, I had it switched off from Friday afternoon. Tried turning it on last night – nothing. Tried a few key combinations online but still absolutely nothing. Used a different power cord...no good. I also resorted to taking the battery out and seeing if it would start while plugged in...all no good.
My question is, if I bought a new battery, what are the chances it would boot up or does it sound like something more serious? There is some data on there I'd like to recover, but it's not super critical.
Without a battery, and plugged in to the power cord, shouldn't it still power on?
If there's no chance of it ever booting up gain, is it likely all my data is gone, or is it possible to take out the HD and get someone to download?
- I've seen some MacBooks just stop like that with no clear reason. At least with a 2012 you can pop out the SSD and put it in a (special) external case.evilpeacock
- Thanks...if it has a macos and boot camp partition, could you extract data from both? It’s mainly the windows data I’d want.BusterBoy
- The data is likely recoverable, with the right case to house and power it.i_monk
- Isn't there a secondary watch style battery in there somewhere... for the internal clock / PRAM? Might be worth googling around. Could be a quick swap.Centigrade
- did you unplug the power cord when turning it off? my mbp12 did the same, but after I plugged it in and let it 'charge' for some time, it fired up normally.uan
- I would switch the battery. Probably right dead. It won't boot with a dead battery.rootlock
- I thought they still boot if you completely remove the battery...as long as it's plugged in?BusterBoy
- Likely a logic board failure. Data is recoverable but will cost between $150 and $250. I went to an authorized apple service Center and had the data back in 2 hcolab
- ^ Or just remove the drive and put it in an inexpensive external drive enclosure. It's easy to pull the drive from these machines.Josev
- I own a mid-2012, I installed a new battery and high speed drive. Took less than an hour.Josev
- shapesalad1
'Morality Fade'... interesting.
- hans_glib0
apple really don't seem to give a shit about detail these days.
the wife just bought herself a new ipad and so i've had to come to terms with the pos that is ios16.my main gripe today is that the error messages are misleading - trying to understand what apple mail's whines and complaints really referred to meant heading to the internet to see if others have had the same issue and then finding out what the real problem is. eg "please enter a password" when a password has been entered; or "mail can't be sent because sender does not exist".
then the ipad suddenly became "unavailable" for no apparent reason. on further research all the official advice is to wipe it and start again!!!! yay we've just spent ages adding in all her various accounts and passwords and now we're supposed to just nuke everything and start from scratch??? Because of course it hasn't yet had a chance to back up to icloud....
in their desperation to add useless "noo feechurs" and shitty bloatware that no-one really needs, these fuckers have totally forgotten the average users.
of course this applies to all techbros, not just apple, but back in the day apple used to be a little more clever and thoughtful.
- tl:dr - old man shouts at cloudshans_glib
- Wait what, you had no Idea new iPads come with iPadOS 16? lol Why would Apple boot them with old OS's?NBQ00
- lol yes i knew it came with 16, or at least a new ios of some sort. i've lost touch with whichever is the latest version. my phone uses 15 apparently.hans_glib
- name a single piece of bloatware in iPadOSmonospaced
- shapesalad0
How do you allow Safari on your Mac desktop to permanentally allow Google to access location?
Every morning when I go to google search I get that pop up, and option is to allow once or for the day.
How to allow it all the time?
- probably by signing in to your goggle account. that basically allows them to spy on you full time.hans_glib
- Might be tied to how cross-site cookies are blocked; Turning off "Enable content blockers" for all Google sites may help as well.evilpeacock
- Hayzilla0
I've got an M1 laptop on Monterey. I'm running out of HD space.
Does anybody know what the fuck this 612Gb of "System Data" is?
- noo feechurshans_glib
- cache, osx downloadsshapesalad
- Def. some kind of unpurged cache or lots of app data from Steam, Adobe, Google, Gargageband/Logic/FC... etc.evilpeacock
- Hit up your user and sys Library folders listed with "Calculate all sizes" turned on and you'll prob. find what it is.evilpeacock
- Porn disguised as system dataNBQ00
- Yea after a bit of googling it seems most of that was After Effects caches found in the library. Jeesh.Hayzilla
- Buy a cheap and fast 100 gb SSD for your AE cache. All that read/writing of cache will age your Macs HD and increase the chance of it breaking.shapesalad
- Same for Illustrator/PS etc.... set them all to a cheap + fast HD you use only for cache.shapesalad
- Adobe software filling a hard disk up with fucking loads of useless tmp and cache files? My, I am surprised.Nairn
- lol wtf have you donested
- so you hid porn in the AE cache folder and forgot about it :)sted
- delete your hidden folder stuff. at least thats how my macbook got full.milfhunter
- @shape, I have my temp files set away from boot/apps SSD and illy still manages to periodically fill the boot with internal temp working filesNairn
- Using Sketch? https://medium.com/s…grafician
- Was just going to say, purge all your after effects caches. Edit > Purge > All Memory & Disk Cacheslappy
- As already mentioned put your AE (and everything else Adobe, Maxon, etc.) caches on a dedicated (fast) external. It'll take a ton of wear and tear off OS SSD.evilpeacock
- Indeed its cleaning your Casche. Only annoying thing is that you will need to login on every website again.milfhunter
- CleanMyMacdoesnotexist
- oh yeah after effects is a cache bastard. purge after every useautoflavour
- shapesalad-12
Would be great to see an iPhone like this:
With buttons. So much easier to use devices with buttons than all this swiping touch nonsense.
- signs you getting oldoey_oey
- iPhone with buttons is not an iPhone, suga********
- So a third of your phone is useless when not typing? No thanksscarabin
- lol, this clown wants T9 back!monospaced
- It needs a sundialscarabin
- _niko-1
Anyone using Ventura with adobe CC? is it stable yet?
- Seems normal stable whatever that means these days.monospaced
- shitshapesalad
- freezes all the time.shapesalad
- Also having issues with scaling/panning. Artboards not moving while the cursor shows that I AM moving it.Josev
- When scaling the rulers show that I'm zooming in, but the dartboard preview isn't changing/actually zooming. So weird.Josev
- milfhunter2
Would be great to see an iPhone like this:
- Ianbolton3
It would be great to see Apple bring back the dial.
- sted0
- sted1
- grafician-5
Apple iMac G4 Desktop Computer, 2001
Jonathan Ive- Chappieutopian
- My first Mac.
Ladies loved it (for real).
: )ideaist - This was the nipple to the Boobie that was the eMac.shapesalad
- I loaned mine to a mate and he angrilly threw a mug of coffee at the floor which bounced into the screen and smashed it. What a prickPhanLo
- monospaced3
In 1985 my elementary school bought a bunch of Macintosh SE/30s, and I quickly fell in love with drawing, typing and playing on the machines.
The first Mac we had in our home was the LC.
- Many of us had the HC
Privileged prick much mono?grafician - Do you even know BASIC bro?grafician
- you okay?monospaced
- yeah bro who the fuck cares you had a mac :)))grafician
- triggered the fuck out of you for some reasonmonospaced
- Released in '89 tho?Nairn
- I had to check, because my rich friend's folks had 'an Apple of some sort' in about '86 and as amazed as I was by it, I don't recall it looking like thisNairn
- Yeah. We got this in 89 or 90.monospaced
- LC stood for “low-cost color” and it was pretty basic.monospaced
- Many of us had the HC
- utopian0
Why do I get this "important notification" on my iPhone at least once a week?
I confirm my password every single time that it asks.
- shapesalad-1
I updated iOS on my iPad to newest one...
Oh my what a pile of shite that clock font is! What are they playing at.
It makes it feel like a Microsoft product. It's not consistent with anything else in the UI.
Fugly.
I can't find a way to change it.
- When I had an amiga 500, moving to pc and then Mac later, felt like upgrading was due to advances in tech.shapesalad
- Now upgrading feels like it is to fatten Apples revenue and to keep UI designers in jobs.shapesalad
- It all as good and worked really well circa 8 years ago. Since then tech advances have been marginal in terms of speed/power.shapesalad
- Innovation Is Always On The Clockutopian
- press and hold lockscreen.
didn't update yet - but I remember it was a feature they announced.uan - Had to change the font straight away too.PhanLo
- agreed. Those customisable apple UI fonts are really really shit. It's actually mind blowing how shit they areinteliboy
- there'd be countless incredible typographers who'd love to put their mark on apples OS... yet they probably palmed it off to some intern engineerinteliboy
- utopian0
Innovation Never Sleeps
- shapesalad-2
Open Terminal and type the following command:
