Pet Peeves

[Carnage]

Once you go slack you never go back.

[Eoin McLove]

To your bag turns black.

[Pat Twisted Wrath]

Also, the pouring out of change onto the till for the cashier to count. This is only an issue for Aldi really, as the local one doesn't have a self service checkout. The less human interaction the better.

[John Kimble]

Built in obsolescence...I have an iPad, not particularly new but in otherwise grand working order. Not even a scratch on it. Went to use YouTube yesterday and was prompted to download a new version as old app was out of date. Can't update to the new version as it's not compatible with the iPads iOS. Can't update the iOS because the iPad is too old.
I get that tech moves forward fairly quickly but this isn't a very old piece of kit. iPads aren't cheap and it's a bit galling that something worth a couple of hundred quid only gets you a few years. Maybe I'll just stick to android in future.

[mickO)))]

Built in obsolescence...I have an iPad, not particularly new but in otherwise grand working order. Not even a scratch on it. Went to use YouTube yesterday and was prompted to download a new version as old app was out of date. Can't update to the new version as it's not compatible with the iPads iOS. Can't update the iOS because the iPad is too old.
I get that tech moves forward fairly quickly but this isn't a very old piece of kit. iPads aren't cheap and it's a bit galling that something worth a couple of hundred quid only gets you a few years. Maybe I'll just stick to android in future.

I have exactly the same problem. Have an old 32gb iPad that I got from signing up for a bank account. It's great for flights and long trips but other than that I rarely use it. Took it out at weekend thinking I would keep it beside the bed and start using it more. Now I can't update the iOS past 12.7 then because of that I can't update any current apps or install any new ones.

That's just Apple trying to force me into buying new one.

I looked into it and their does seem to be unofficial ways to update it but I am shite with IT stuff so I don't think ill even bother trying and most definitely will not be buying a new one.

[John Kimble]

Yeah, I won't be buying another one for sure. Way too expensive for what it is. I'll prob just factory reset it and use it for Netflix for the kids, but it's only a matter of time before the Netflix app becomes unusable as well. That has already happened with the Disney+ app, so it's usefulness is rapidly diminishing.

Realise now just reading over what I've posted that this is the epitome of a first world problem. Fuck it, still annoying as fuck

[Giggles]

Realise now just reading over what I've posted that this is the epitome of a first world problem.

I dunno man, I think the internet exists in most parts of the world. Some starving kid in Africa in probably raging that their donated ipad doesn't load Youtube anymore. And rightly so! Fuck Apple, this is why I won't buy their shit anymore.

[Carnage]

Guaranteed there'll be a Reddit thread on how to install specific versions of apps that'll be compatible, even ways to 'downgrade' from the updated IOS. Worth having a look rather than binning it altogether. But this is why I never went near Apple other than a couple of iPods, the shit my sister went through with iPhones was ridiculous.

[Ducky]

Apple and iOS has always been way too hand-holdy. Android all the way.

[The Heretic]

I've never seen the appeal with Apple stuff, everything seems like hassle

[astfgyl]

Once you go slack you never go back.

This is why I didn't stay going!

[Anvil]

People who start or end work messages with Happy Valentine's Day... will you just go and fuck yourself... seriously.   

[Eoin McLove]

People who start or end work messages with Happy Valentine's Day... will you just go and fuck yourself... seriously.   

Maybe they want to fuck you instead?

[Anvil]

Only if they promise to use lube...

[astfgyl]

People who start or end work messages with Happy Valentine's Day... will you just go and fuck yourself... seriously.   

Got that from the childminders WhatsApp group today. Found it a bit wtf. Looks like I'm not the only one!

When I was in second class in primary school, our teacher made us all line up and kiss her 60 something year old lips before we could go home. One fella made a run for it and was grabbed and kept back locked into the toilets outside the classroom for an hour so the rest of us took our punishment. This was back when teachers could smoke fags in class as well and I could never smoke an oul No.6 again after tasting them off her wrinkled lips.

Maybe the text messages aren't so bad after all