Good morning!

gmork is so grumpy before he's had his morning coffee

Wow.. if I was like 10 years older I would've felt the same way when Bush said "No new taxes". Or remember those commercials for Orange Juice where their slogan was "never touched by human hands" so their competitors showed a bunch of unwashed chimpanzees squeezing oranges.. it's kinda like that.

Yeah my mom's the same way about her Mac. Her computer at this point is an 8 year-old $3k iMac that can barely open her email, and downloading apps or music with her iPhone or Pad? Forget about it; the apple ID is different than the iTunes ID and that was years ago.. blah blah blah.. point is for all her iMac and iPad are worth she really doesn't want to take advantage of the bells and whistles, or even the capability, just manage to keep up with what are practically universal givens like checking your email. You could probably figure out a way for a goddamn Apple IIE to check your fucking email..

and yet now she wants a new 2.5-3k iMac, which ostensibly she'll forget to update like her current one, or if she tries get booted off the one time when my dad plugs in his iPhone to charge, thereby associating the computer with HIS apple ID now.. fuck it's giving me a headache. Yet I try to tell her how besides various jobs using XP I've been mint or ubuntu since Win 3.1 and "seriously windows 10 really IS that good and I usually hate Microsoft and plus you can get a top of the line MSI or something for half the price of a Mac.."

Because PCs are too complicated

OT but I also switched from iPhone to Galaxy this year, and yeah.. it's still kinda weird to just drag and drop music and files. With iPhone and my last mint OS I just gave up trying and subscribed to Spotify of all things! But one problem I've got is the volume. I have the pretty standard Sony cupped headphones that you see at Walgreens or Bi-Mart, nothing fancy but they're one of the louder ones. Anyway with volume at maximum I can't really hear it much over the bus, traffic, etc. and unless I had some accident I don't remember that really fucked with my hearing, it was way louder with iPhone, to the point where I didn't even have it at Max anymore.

Anybody else have this and try things out? I'm pretty sure the ones in the Play Store are bullshit, and I tried a Dual Speaker mod but that didn't work either and I just kinda forgot about it, but I'd appreciate any suggestions :) I've got a g935p

It's entirely possible you need to root your Galaxy for it them to work, but at least some of those apps aren't bullshit.

When I still had my Galaxy Tab, it had the same problem and Cyanogenmod came with a DSP settings app that fixed it... but that was custom rom running with root.

Samsung is NOTORIOUS for having just about the garbagey-est stock rom of any company that makes android devices.

Uhh, ransomware is pretty popular these days, and OS X has a pretty good one for it

Drive encrypting ransomware is one of the few actual pieces of malware I've encountered in the wild over the past couple years.

Nobody has ever thought that, and you are stupid for thinking they did.

(umm.. for a MacBook/iMac I mean)

None of that is accurate.

How so? I had an iPhone and couldn't just download an mp3 or a zip file or anything else not from iTunes or Apple Store, so I are they assuming that Mac CPU users will do the same and not download from or visit untrusted sites?

Macs do have a security setting enabled by default that prevents you from installing non-app store programs. It's easy enough to get around (far easier than jailbreaking, you can either disable it in system preferences or just right-click>Open With>(installer)) but probably enough to stop many mac users from bothering with it.

Actually come to think of it, my Samsung has that too. It's more lax, since they advertise emulators, and obviously not the roms themselves, but I couldn't get pirated copies of full versions of Pinball Arcade or any other paid app to work until I deselected whatever I deselected. But.. I think I was prompted and asked if I'd like to do so; I'm assuming Macs don't make it so clear.

I don't, but then again I'm not an elitist fucktard like a lot of people I see here. I use multiple platforms for multiple things.

Keep on being stupid gmork.

This is obviously a 'Pc master race' post, and has nothing to do with apples idiotic deceitful advertising.

You are a special snowflake for using multiple brand devices, no one else does that! You're so original and unique!

Nah, Apple products and fans are the absolute worst. Their "charge you the price of a brand new device for the simplest of repairs so why don't you just buy a brand new device?" practice alone swore me off of ever buying one of their products again.

and nothing will get you more scorn and dirty looks than showing up to a gig/gathering in a "creative" field with a PC lap top. Expect maximum passive aggression from black berets when that happens.