Rant: July 2019 Archives

Have a look at this trash I saw in a newsagent the other week.

So here we have one magazine saying Harry and Meghan are pregnant again.  And right next to it other one says they've split.  One of these magazines said they had split months ago.  Do they just make this stuff up?  I think they might be referring to a split from William and Kate's charity foundation.  But that's not what it looks like there.

Now have a look closer the the covers.  Both have a picture of Fifi Box and her new baby.  One of them thought they could just reverse the picture like noone would notice.

And then there's this.  I don't know about you, but I remember seeing the first pictures of Suri as a baby and thinking she looked *exactly* like Tom Cruise.

I can't believe people actually buy those magazines.  They're utter trash.  I feel dirty even just looking at them.

So I pretty much always get depressed on Sunday nights.  But throw into the mix the fact that APPLE SUX and everything just becomes too hard.  Apple is STILL so buggy I can't download timelapse movie files off my phone with Windows Explorer.  I first noticed this when I first started taking timelapse movies using the inbuilt iOS feature.  If you try to copy the video file it says "a device attached the system is not functioning" and you have to reboot the phone just have another go at getting the *rest* of the files off.

This happened at least last year and I ranted long and hard about it, and the fact that the only way I could get the files off my phone at all was with iCloud.  But do you think I can find that rant?  Or even the movies I took?

No.

Because I suck.  And Apple sux.

No blog for you.

Edit: found the movies.  They were taken at the end of 2017 on my old iPhone. So this bug has persisted on two different phones with multiple versions of iOS.  Does this company actually care at all about people like me?  Guess not.

Edit again:  Actually I don't think I could use iCloud.  I just tried again and now I remember I had problems with that too - I get "Can't play - This item was encoded in a format that's not supported.  0xc00d5212".  Maybe I sent it via email.. which was ok for smaller files but was problematic for bigger files.  I wish I could find that rant and my solution :(

Edit again:  Ok so yeah emailing the file worked (for this file because it was small enough).  I think for larger ones I had to use this "fix" (not a fix at all because from memory it left the JPGs in some weird format, so I basically had to set this setting, get the files, then turn the setting back again).

I hate Apple So. Much.

I've just wasted a good chunk of my evening wasting time because of Apple's CRAP.  I should have just gotten an Android.