Apple 🍎

Hey Apple, maybe instead of finding new ways to squeeze money out of developers, perhaps you could focus on better spam control? I mean, it’s awful my Apple Pay account was hacked and I really need to you so I can get my $439.56 back but come on, you can fix this, you have all the money. #sarcasm 😡😤

Yesterday was all about maintenance on my UnRaid server and today is rebuilding my MacBook Air; I can’t figure out my networking issues, so I’m starting from scratch. 🤣😂🤪 #nerd

Experiencing the oddest tech issue of my life: my Mac Air won’t connect to some domains, including ”captive.apple.com” which means I can’t get on this crappy hotel WiFi. 😭🤷 It might be time for a nuke ‘n pave… 😱

Oh how I hate coming into the Apple Store (selling back my Apple Watch); I don’t know why they hate lines but when you’re told to go stand “by that table” and then no one comes to help you, it’s incredible frustrating. 😮‍💨 ⌚️

Congratulations Apple, I will never again buy AirPods from you.

Apple: “it just works." …until it doesn’t and then you have to fight tooth and nail to get ahold of anyone who will actually help you. 😱

I was listening to the latest @atpfm podcast, about the dust up between Apple / Creators / Patreon and I’m in agreement with the hosts: it’s just yuck. I love their hardware but with the focus on squeezing more revenue out small devs / creators, it’s getting harder to justify giving Apple money.

It’s been years since I saw one in the wild but whilst my friend and I were out, we dropped by a second-hand shop and I found an AirPort Time Capsule. 🤣 📷

I totally forgot it was WWDC today… 🤣

Maybe I’m in the minority but I really don’t care about Apple Vision Pro… 🤷🏼‍♂️

Dear Apple
I’m pretty darn sure you know that I keep marking emails with “Payment Completed” as spam, esp when they contain image attachments and ask me to contact the support team (with a very odd URL) if I have concerns. Perhaps you could just block them moving forward?

Thank you,
Unhappy Geek

Follow-Up (Part 2): I was trying to listen to some Holiday music this morning, only to realize none of my Sonos speakers worked with AirPlay. After digging online, it turns out the only way to get a Sonos speaker back into HomeKit after the home is deleted is to factory reset the Sonos. 😱😅

Follow-Up: I think my HomeKit set up is mostly back to normal. I was a little stupid and didn’t take backups / exports…so I lost some historical data (mostly temperature / humidity / air quality) but at least my Holiday automations are working again. 🎄😅

My HomeKit set up has been rock-solid for years but the minute I added a Matter plug (the “Meross Matter Smart Plug Mini”), everything breaks…and as it’s Apple land, where everything works perfectly until it doesn’t, fixing it is going to be…unpleasant. 😱😭

Follow-Up: The IKEA Sonos speaker is working perfectly (which is more than I could ever say of the HomePod Mini stereo set up) this morning; holiday music is flooding the room whilst I’m debugging some legacy Java code. 🤓🎄 (Yes, I had a spare speaker lying around… 🤣) 📷