TigerTedd
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11 minutes ago, Wolfie said:
You can set auto-lock delay to 5 mins but I accept that might still not be long enough if you're doing stuff & want to look at it occasionally.
I've only just started to do the "Hey Siri" thing when I'm in the car, to make calls & choose music etc as that seems to work better than the car's own voice system.
The main thing stopping me from upgrading from my 6S+ is the lack of 3.5mm headphone jack. I can just do without yet another thing to have to remember to charge.
I’ve started using hey Siri a lot more in the car now actually. It’s quite responsive, until it’s not. Then it’s the most frustrating thing in the world.
My 8plus came with a lightening to 3.5mm jack converterrer thingy in the box. Don’t know if the x’s do too.
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Anyway, slight change of subject (but still under the heading of Apple).
HomePod - what do you reckon?
I’m so into the Apple eco system now, to the point that we’ve just taken out a subscription with Apple Music, I couldn’t imagine getting anything else.
Basically, I want to smart home the poo out of my house. The best smart home hub / thermostat as far as I can tell is Nest. But it’s owned by google and won’t work at with home kit. I want stuff that works with home kit, cos ultimately I want a home pod, and I want to be able to tell Siri to do clever things with my lights etc. So I’ve got to get hike kit enabled stuff, but it looks like all the best stuff is not. What are Apple playing at here?
also, if you’ve got an Alexa, HomePod, whatever, but you’ve got a 3 story house, what’s the best way of using it? I’m not after buying one for each floor. Would it bang out tunes from the middle floor that we could hear throughout the whole house? Would it hear me shouting to it from upstairs?
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35 minutes ago, David said:
Traffic lights!
That could be a bit of a deal breaker. I’m often having to unlock it while I’m cooking and have a recipe on it (really need to work out a way to keep the phone from locking when I’m cooking though, when you’ve got flour all over your fingers, it’s not good), and often having to unlock it in the car, whilst parked and only once I’ve thrown the keys out of the window, of course.
Shouldnt be too difficult for them to have some sort of button you tap which forces it to run a face scan, without you having to pick it up. That would be handy.
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17 minutes ago, richinspain said:
An app instead of house keys? I think we're probably about 10 years behind here. I'm fairly sure the HomePod isn't available over here yet!
Yale smart lock. It’s the future.
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24 minutes ago, richinspain said:
I've got a man bag. They've been popular over here for years. I couldn't be without it now (except last weekend, I didn't take it to Derby because I took a rucksack), I need somewhere to carry my reading glasses, sun glasses, wallet, house keys, office keys, apartment keys, car keys.......... I'd look like Felix and his amazing underpants without my man bag.
Bringing back on thread... I’ve got an app instead of house keys. In conclusion, all you really need is an iPhone Xs Max (and a bah to carry it in).
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11 minutes ago, Boycie said:
Daveo had one and sent it back I think, said it hurt his twig like arms holding it.
Getting back to the days of having a separate brief case for your mobile.
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4 hours ago, Grimbeard said:
Why is iTunes so crap? They continuously bring out new versions that are invariably worse than the previous version. Everytime I sync my iPod, I get some tracks corrupted, some tracks duplicated and some tracks disappear altogether.
I've just tried to buy some stuff, you know, actually give them some money, can I do this? Can I buggery. First I'm told my password is incorrect, it wasn't, but I changed it anyway. Then I need to verify my payment method, so I tried to do that, but I can't because "I need to run Windows 7 or higher". I'm already running Windows 10 so now what? I've emailed them, but I won't be holding my breath waiting for a solution.
That’s a Windows problem. Not an apple one. If you had a Mac, you wouldn’t have those problems.
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9 hours ago, loweman2 said:
One for @B4ev6is there.
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And my daughters favourite:
What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
A carrot!
(I remeber telling that to my daughter for the first time in a restaurant. She didn’t get it, but the guy in the stall behind me wet himself laughing).
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What do you call a pavement with a chainsaw and a hockey mask?
A cycle path.
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14 minutes ago, ketteringram said:
I don't think the pricing is going to be an issue. Especially if you're talking about them, in houses which already have Apple kit around the place.
Not sure what you mean in the second paragraph.
I mean, if youre in your bedroom and the home pod is in the living room, and you want to ask Siri for something, your phone would probably just answer. So the main difference with the home pod is the speaker set up.
I’ve got loads of Apple kit, and I will be getting a home pod, but I don’t imagine being able to justify a second for a long time.
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2 minutes ago, ketteringram said:
I think that will be a real game changer. I've read some amazingly good reviews about the sound from the homepod, from reviewers who I'd trust to know what they're on about. Once you can pair them up, and have a multi room set up etc, they're going to be hard to beat.
But they’re not cheap, so to buy several to link up round your house would be quite an extravagance. At least echo and google have their smaller versions.
Although i guess your smaller version is just you’re phone, and if it’s just the speaker side of things that’s most important, then you need the whole device for the full effect.
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36 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:
Sounds like your wife needs some support? Have you asked her whether she wants you to 'make the next big thing happen'?
Unfortunatley I think the die has been cast in terms of the next big thing. I can’t really stop the wheels from turning, so if I don’t crack on, it all goes tits up, and we end up considerably worse off. Luckily, the last big thing is what allows me to not do much work, and be at home most of the time to support her, for now, but I’m a long way from retirement. But I’m far from being able to retire, so it’s either that, or I get a normal job and I’m gone from 8 til 6 and offer no support at all. Sometimes I’m not sure which she’d prefer.
I’m far from a perfect husband, but I do what I can.
Meanwhile, we decided to buy a house on a whim, pretty much the most stressful thing you can do. We don’t do ourselves many favours.
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17 minutes ago, Paul71 said:
It really can be difficult. As you say the signs, what are they?
I think when I look back, things like starting to let the smallest thing really irritate me. to the point i'd really get quite angry about things.
I know i said things to my wife i shouldnt have, looking for reasons to lash out, which isnt good and when i did i felt immediately worse after (i dont mean physicially but verbally which i still regret).
Thankfully I am calmer now since i started the medication.
I think the key is as you say you cant just go straight back, sometimes it takes a long time and your wifes occupation health if they have one should help with that.
Sometimes you do think things and conspiring against you, today my second day back and the A38 is closed due to an accident, so after 3 hours if trying to get somewhere i turned round and came home. I found myself getting annoyed but then stopped myself and thought someone could have died, they may have i dont know, i know it was a very serious accident.
I am trying to tell myself i should set myself very small achievable goals.
I hate it when someone says ‘oh yeah, I feel like that that sometimes too, so I must have that too’ people say that all the the time when I say I have Aspergers.
But, I feel like that sometimes too, so I do worry I might be bottling something up. I lash out at my wife in similar unfair ways.
Weve had conversations about it. I get stressed and lash out at her, then I feel guilty about that, so it makes me feel worse, and I feel bad I end up lashing out again, it’s very hard to stop the cycle. It’s like it’s her fault for making me feel guilty, which of course it isn’t.
But then she lashes out at me in a very similar way, even when it’s one of the few occasions I’ve really done nothing wrong.
like we were just discussing that we don’t tell each other what’s going on with each other, cos I feel extra pressure to pick up the slack from her to make her feel less stressed, but by knowing that she’s causing me stress by being stressed, she gets more stressed, and then I get more stressed, cos I’ve inadverrently made her stressed, by trying to make her less stressed (I think I’ve worn out the s on my keyboard). And so it goes round and round and round.
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13 hours ago, Paul71 said:
Hi Mate
Yeah been in, just for the morning. Got all my passwords and kit unlocked. Wasnt too bad thought feel shattered now, going to have an easy week or so and ease myself in.
Thanks for asking
This is a long thread to catch up on, so, to be honest, I haven’t.
So I’ll tell you about my wife because a) you, or someone else, might find it interesting, and b) you, or someone else, might have some advice.
She came home from work in an ambulance just before Christmas. She was having pains in her chest, but ignored it, then she just broke down in tears on the phone to a random customer.
They called 111, who got a paramedic out, and cos she’s had issues with her heart before, she called an ambulance.
Turns out it wasn’t a recurrence of her heart issue, but an anxiety attack, which can cause a pain in the chest, which feels like it’s the heart, but it’s not.
Shes was the 5th in a team of 8 to go off with stress, including her manager.
Thing is though, it’s not the job that has necessarily sent her over the edge. It’s the kids.
She’s been seeing a therapist now. And moving away from her family and friends 9 years ago was bad enough. But what really kicked it off was finding out we were expecting a surprise package, just 3 or 4 months after the second (the 1st is a bit older 5 when the second was born, and an absolute god send most of the time). But two babies is hard work.
I know this thread starts with the question, what are the signs.
Well this really worried me, as I knew she was getting more and more stressed. She’d get up in the middle of the night, and I’d find her sat in the living room crying and contemplating the decisions that got her to this point. And crying over the guilt of sort of blaming our daughter, and therefore not being able to bond with her like she wants to (despite clearly loving her to bits).
I’m not a great help. I’m self employed, so I’m very inconsistent. Sometimes I’m around for the school run and bath time. But sometimes I’m out til 10pm without much warning. And there’s added stress from me never really knowing what I’m gojng to earn from one week to the next.
I’d get texts from her saying she’s going punch a kid in the face soon.
I kept thinking, it’ll get easier, and tried to reassures her that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. They’ll get slightly less dependant week after week. And she’ll be fine.
But then I kept worrying that that is probably exactly what husbands do, right before their wife wraps the kids in the back of a car and drives into a river. I’m sure my wife would never ever contemplate that, but I bet they said the same thing.
I did at least her recognise all was not well, and told her she should speak to the doctor but she bever did
So im very glad she had this break down at work. As it got her to go to the doctor and the therapist.
Thing is, she really wants to go back to work. When she was on maternity leave, going back to work was her light at the end of the tunnel, and she really enjoyed going back. But then it started getting really stressful at work too, and that was the final straw. No sanctuary anywhere.
A couple of weeks ago, she was scheduled to go back to work (they’ve made some changes apparently, and most people in her team have returned now), on half days, but got a chest infection. She thought, she couldn’t possibly call in sick on her first day back, so she went anyway for 2 days, and then had to call in sick on the 3rd.
The next week she went back to work and started getting pains in her chest again. She didn’t feel mentally too stressed though. She went to the pharmacist at lunch time, who said that he should really be calling an ambulance again, if those were her symptoms. She played it down and had a return to work interview with her manager in the afternoon.
I told her to tell her manager about it, and she sent her straight home (after she made her manager cry with all she’s been through).
I told her that it’s like coming back after a major operation. Even if you feel okay, you still need to give it a couple of weeks after that, not just jump straight back in.
The new plan is that she’ll take a couple of weeks off, then go back for 2 hours a day for a few weeks. I’m not sure how that’ll work.
Now im stressing out, cos, to be honest, I’ve had a very stressful couple of years (which, to be honest, my wife has probably had a lot of it deflected into her). Now I’m desperately trying to make the next big thing happen, so she doesn’t have to go back to work, but at the same time I’m trying to pick up the slack at home to give her less to worry about, taking her out for nice lunches and things when the kids are at nursery (when I really should be working).
Now, to add insult to injury, Nursery has shut for the day, on the one day a week we get to truly relax. No rest for the wicked!
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2 hours ago, ketteringram said:
Then that last sentence, makes a mockery of everything you said before it.
Apple an be frustrating. But Microsoft and Android are frustrating and *****.
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2 hours ago, jono said:
Multiple family iPads, and old Mac Book, iPhones and one account. Easy ? ... Naaaaa you have a cloud and you don't know which photos are in the cloud, which aren't, why there seem to be about 9 versions of each photo on the Mac, then your iPad storage always lurks about 0.9gig from full and Cloud wants 2.99 a month for a bit more storage for photos that you don't really want but the prospect of going one by one through them to delete them is just too much, and anyway have you deleted the cloud version of the one on your iPad ? How many passwords, verifications, id's, reminder codes, DNA sampling and recovery emails, back ups, auto back ups, Apple Pay, and then anything you've paid for isn't yours anyway, you've just licensed it .. What's that all about ! The IT and communications industry .. Hugely clever, very useful but boy are we being scre**d on a by the minute basis.
.... Apple, definition ... A handy tool with great access to your bank account I order to feed the hungry of Southern California and Chzen zen province.
I get your frustration. iPads should certainly have the ability for account switching. We have 3 family iPads, theyre not personal device, I can’t wven remember who’s account is logged in. We tried having a family account once, but now a bunch of our calendars are attached to that account and it’s teally hard to therefore delete that account altogether, even though we’ve given up on the idea of a family account now (and Apple, to be fair, have made it easier to share things among families). But the iPad Pro is going to lead to even more people sharing an iPad. You’re not going to have one iPad Pro per person in a family of 5.
And because of all these accounts and devices, I’m never really sure where my photos are. They keeping doing major updates to the photos app on the MacBook. But I don’t dare even look in it now. God knows what’s in there.
I try to avoid taking photos at all now, weirdly enough, and just get my wife to take them all.
I appreciate what they’re doing with moments and things. That’s a great idea, and the little videos actually do work really well. But I’ve got out of the having of taking photos now, for fear of where they’ll end up, or of having thousands of photos of the same thing that I’m never bothered to delete the crap ones of.
I should try to get back into the habit.
I keep thinking, if I could just use this ecosystem properly, it could be wonderful, but I haven’t quite cracked it to my satisfaction.
Its still 100 times better than android or Microsoft though.
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9 hours ago, David said:
@TigerTedd Those Homepods available to order from Friday it's been announced, released Feb 9th
Awesome, cheers.
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Coco - 8/10 - the twist is a bit obvious (although my wife gasped and I was thinking ‘really, you hadn’t worked that out yet’), but it’s pribably good for kids - but besides that, Pixar have donebit again. Take some tissues, I don’t care how hard you think you are (although no child should see her Dad cry, so you should probably just go alone).
And, my wife being South American (from Peru), lots of it was very close to home, like going to see her family (she cried more at Paddington though).
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7 hours ago, Highgate said:
Yes of course, but that doesn't mean their name isn't ironic given that 'smartphones' seem capable of gradually decreasing the intelligence of their users over time.
Not that I'm advocating not using them. There is no going back now, they are far too useful. But given that they can negatively effect our ability to concentrate and can actually cause some users brains to produce cortisol after brief moments without their phones, there are some reasons to be concerned about the way they are changing our behaviour.
Couldn't care less about the whole Apple vs Android debate.
I was contemplating the other daybthe itonybthat I leepntelling my kids to get off the iPad, but then they probably see me with my smartphone in hand 90% of the time (like now, at the breakfast table).
I say I’m doing important working. That might be a lie.
Bit I’m hoping if my kids see me doing it, they’ll think it’s not cool. The next generation probably won’t use them half as much (wishful thinking).
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2 hours ago, Highgate said:
Apparently all smartphones, regardless of the manufacturer, are making us less intelligent as a species. Ironic, given their name.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/691462
It’s the phones that are smart. It makes no claim about the users.
I can see how an android could make you smarter though. It’s so bloody difficult to use that you’d have to be a genius to work it out. Whereas any idiot (or 2 year old) can actually use an iPhone.
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30 minutes ago, kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong said:
They aren't intuitive at all if you are used to another system....
Ask Apple users who try to switch to android.
Just not for me,I didn't like the Apple infrastructure either,seems a lot less flexible than googles.
It was worth having a look tho,if only to confirm my preferences.
The infrastructure being inflexible isn’t kind of the point. I don’t want to spend days looking for a phone, watch, tablet, router, docking station, home hub etc.
I spent hours just trying to compare Alexa with the google home hub thingy for my sister. I won’t have to do that for myself, I’m just going to buy the Apple one, dead easy, saves me loads of time, one less thing to worry about. And I know it will all just work seamlessly.
I went from Windows to a mac, having been an avid supporter of Windows, took me about 3 days to realise the interface and the intuitiveness was far superior. At the same time I moved from an android to an iPhone and never looked back. I try to use an android now, and it’s just so unintuitive, I cant find anything on it.
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15 minutes ago, kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong said:
I had an iPhone for my birthday last month....after years of android gear my wife thought it would be a nice thing to get me.
Used it for a week and sent it back,I just couldn't get used to using one,it drove me mad!
Back to android?
How can you not get on with it. It’s the most intuitive thing imaginable. My 70 year old Mum can use her iPad without instruction, and my 2 year old son can use our iPad to FaceTime his sister (among many other things, it’s a bit concerning).
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Cool. I’d like some smart garden lights. I’m thinking of Tado or Honeywell for my thermostat though. Both home kit enabled, to keep it all the family. Nest is just so sexy though.