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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
"please enter your password"

so I enter it



*like 10 minutes pass, I have to walk away or jerk off or something*


and now I have to force quit the app store

and I still can't get what I want


the only things I can install on this mac are things I have previously installed because as soon as it requests my password it hangs.. logging into icloud for my keychain? hang

logging into account for app store? hang


it even hung when I was setting this bitch up entering my password. I had to force reset, tried it again.. hung again.. I had to set up osx with no account


loves to hang. which is ironic, coz its got a tiny dick

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
imagine being asked to pay more money for a part for your computer than the entire computer

also take note anyone who is invested in apple making money - that was a third party vendor. they charge apple that and apple pay it. apple chose the more expensive more moronic option, rather than replacing the entire mac

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
things I thought a mac would be able to do


have osx reinstall and set itself up like I had it before. I shouldn't need a time machine backup for it to remember my email accounts or what apps were installed?

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
ive recently set up windows 10 on two machines and you know what? I don't get frustrated with it

is it inconsitent? yes.

is it loving stupid how like, they retain only windows vista era dialouges for like pwoer options with new ones for other thigns? yes

but you know what? it works.

at least it's not constantly driving me crazy making me wonder how the hell am I meant to fix something or make something work as its meant to

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

shitface posted:

counterpoint: you're too stupid to use a mac

its actually amazingly disappointing how the solution to every basic problem I have with this mac is that it's my fault


let me walk you through setting up osx, you tell me what I did wrong

"what country do you live in" - I put in my country
"what keyboard type" - thanks for asking, there is only one option. I choose it
"set up wifi" - I enter my wifi password
"turn on location services" - I click yes
"please enter your apple ID" - I do... and it hangs.

I repeated this entire scenario twice

for fucks sake you flaming stupid faces... stop fuckin blaming me for osx and the hardware being a piece of poo poo


"too stupid for mac, but clearly smart enough to excel at the worser and less intuitive operating system windows"

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
this isn't funny computer. my time isn't worthless here

and yet the hours of janitoring I have to put into this mac is incredible

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
pirate windows? spending time janitoring? I accept that. it's part of the contract. I don't complain


but janitoring a mac... isn't this why I paid literally thousands of dollars for a few chunks of poo poo, so this kind of bullshit was avoided

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
trying to make osx promotores feel bad, because they are bad people who should feel bad



anyway I suspect the problem is because I am surrounded by broken morons, and its not me.. dingus at the shop who fixed it.. well on system information now my mac has no serial number coz he didnt flash the new board with the old serial number and coz osx is obviously some pansy rear end needy operating system that support monogomy (down with monogomy gently caress big tittied 21yo girls every day) and not an unemployed polyamourous lifestyle I NOW HAVE TO TAKE IT BACK TO THE SHOP AND THATS LIKE OVER AN HOUR ROUND TRIP gently caress gently caress fuckkkkk

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

FopeDush posted:

mac bad. stay strong echopenis.

im hanging on by a thread mate

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

akadajet posted:

a cowoker told me that her dad still uses a windows 98 pc and she's getting him something new. she wanted to know what to buy him.

i said macbook air bc windows and old people don't mix

idk why youd think old people and windows dont mix

my olds use windows and they succeed

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
no cost to me was my wife trying to run her business with no computer for over a week, relying on icloud which had not managed to save the latest version of her spreadsheets etc and losing that work

and it would have been nice to have the laptop back to where it was but now I have to spend all that time setting up emails n poo poo again


like I said. I expect to pour time and energy into a windows machine. I expect this mac to do the hard work for me

and thanks to the lovely shop I have to take the computer back to get fixed AGAIN coz osx is a bitch about serial numbers


the repair cost of this laptop terrifies me for owning it for much longer as its likely it'll break again in a month I guess

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
hmmmmm intrigue

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
shucks guys :unsmith:

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
shucks guys :unsmith:

Doc Block posted:

because PCs never have hardware failures, and PC manufacturers are just so good :jerkbag: about repairing them when they do.

but i'm sorry you had to endure the hardship of typing in e-mail passwords and other such things. if only there was some sort of automatic backup system built in to the operating system that could've prevented this...

edit: the repair center not flashing your mac's serial # on the new mobo is also somehow OS X's fault, got it.

its osxs fault for being a little bitch about it

and the automatic backup system should work like my iphone. this is 2016. it should happen automatically. last time I check automatically didn't manually

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Smythe posted:

He's epic, talented, a great poster, and hell - I hope he will agree, my friend.

more than friends, my good mate

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
lets face it - the mac life is a life fraught with burden and despair

encouraging others to own and run a mac is like when obese people encourage you to eat more cake

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
the entirety of the data on the mac could live in 5gb i wish it did that

time machines are like 4 thousand dollars

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
if its a mac, it sounds like you got lucky

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
mother fuckers thinking this poo poo is my fault

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

he hardware broke. how the hell is this my fault or me being bad? and sorry I assumed iCloud would do what it did on all my other apple devices, coz my Mac sure as hell didn't tell me it wouldn't be the Anawer to all my problems


tell me.. can I back it up automatically to a network share

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
so as usual the answer is to spend more money, rather than use something I already have


if I have to physically attach a drive in 2016 I probably won't bother coz I won't remember to do it often enough to make it worth it

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
lmao i would never trust this mac with precious stuff like family photos

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
this laptop is for my wife to manage her/our business. it's mostly emails and a few power pints and spreadsheets. anything of value should be on iCloud but didn't work so smoothly so I will investigate why it didn't seem to have saved the most recent things


if the functionality to save the setup rather than a backup to the cloud doesn't exist I'll just go home disappointment rather than with a silly setup of plugging in an external and backing up manually like some kind of pidgeon

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

mishaq posted:

shagger isn't incompetent, he's just a masochist

echi is incompetent

I haven't even done anything incompetent! I just refuse to use the stupid moron-methods like plugging something in to a mother fuckin laptop. its bad enough you have to plug it into a power socket every few days

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
the biggest issue to be honest, because I actually dont store any data on this laptop except whats already in icloud, except when the whole thing hosed up the copies in icloud were months old, and I don't know why. did my wife somehow start saving them to the normal folders and not icloud folders? idk and there is no way to tell anymore. but I need to make sure everything she IS doing is getting iclouded

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
setting it up like it was with email accounts is a hassle but not really THAT big of a deal. putting a graphical signature on the osx email program is a bit of a pain in the rear end but I managed that too


oh and having to enable tap to click. who in their right mind makes osx default to click to click. clicking on the trackpad is the worst

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
my gimmick is dropping ridiculous statements I don't actually believe in the middle of ridiculous statements I do believe

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
save dialogue? what the gently caress is this?


you open numbers.. you make the spreadsheet and you close the lid on the latop whebn you're done. if you want you can click the little red close icon if you want it off the screen


"saving things" is so 2004

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
jesus christ mishaq

is this how you shoe someone love? by spreading rumours they're a child predator who specifically goes for extra vulnerable children who are a mixture of illiterate but also big on the IM scene

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