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Also, every time I plug my iPhone into my Mac for syncing it asks "Trust this Device" both the Mac and the iPhone. I click "yes" and yet it asks again next time

Also, every time I plug my iPhone into my Mac for syncing it asks "Trust this Device" both the Mac and the iPhone. I click "yes" and yet it asks again next time.

grishka 1y ago
Remembering things reliably must be the most unsolvable problem in computer science. Unless it's related to advertising. Then it works flawlessly and sometimes survives device transfers and factory resets.
- falcor84 1y ago
  "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." -Jeff Hammerbacher
  - olddustytrail 1y ago
    I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix
    - Y_Y 1y ago
      How is that supposed to make anyone click on an ad?
      - falcor84 1y ago
        Just to expand upon the reference, the comment you responded to is the first stanza of Allen Ginsberg poem "Howl" [0] published in 1956, which is what Hammerbacher paraphrased in the quote that I shared. "Howl" is amazing on its own though, and I highly recommend that people read the whole thing and/or watch the 2010 film about Ginsberg's life where James Franco recites it in its entirety[1]. And as a follow-up, I also highly recommend Scott Alexander's "Meditations on Moloch" that takes inspiration from the poem to analyze societal failures of coordination. [0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049402/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049402/ [2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
        Y_Y 1y ago
        Thanks for adding the background, much more helpful than my glib nonsense. I feel that Meditations on Moloch should be mandatory study for anyone who lives in a society.
- babypuncher 1y ago
  I hate how in macOS, I can double click a window's title bar to maximize it, and five minutes later the original window size will be forgotten so you can't restore it. Windows 95 had this shit figured out on systems running a 486 and 6MB of RAM.
  - happymellon 1y ago
    Not just the window size, but if you have more than one monitor, it won't always remember the screen. Oh, you double clicked to make it bigger? How about making it postage stamp sized in the bottom left of a different monitor...
- duxup 1y ago
  I feel like advertising relies on getting it right "enough" not for everyone and ... they don't care. Auth and settings people will tell you when it is wrong and that is generally thought of as a problem. Yet advertising doesn't care. For years Amazon kept showing me women's products. I never once bought any or looked them up but man they were sure I wanted to buy some. Google thought I was a Nebraska Cornhuskers fan but really I'm a fan of a rival, that's why I had to google a few things about them, but my old google news feed was sure I was a fan... even when they gave me a chance to say "no news about this team" they kept doing it ...
hamburglar 1y ago
It’s worse if you say no. It just keeps asking you. I don’t plug my phone into my Mac to charge it anymore. It’s just too annoying.
baggy_trough 1y ago
This is seriously annoying.
daneel_w 1y ago
Help yourself to the system setting "Privacy & Security -> Allow accessories to connect". The sane default is "ask every time", and you probably want "ask for new accessories".
- phire 1y ago
  That stops the computer asking, but it doesn't stop the phone asking. Apple changed this a few years ago, because of a potential security venerability: https://imazing.com/blog/ios-backup-passcode-prompt https://imazing.com/blog/ios-backup-passcode-prompt
  - socalgal2 1y ago
    It's a known solvable problem though. Both devices can exchange public keys and every time they're connected they can validate those keys with each other.

Also, every time I plug my iPhone into my Mac for syncing it asks "Trust this Device" both the Mac and the iPhone. I click "yes" and yet it asks again next time.

grishka 1y ago

Remembering things reliably must be the most unsolvable problem in computer science. Unless it's related to advertising. Then it works flawlessly and sometimes survives device transfers and factory resets.

falcor84 1y ago
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." -Jeff Hammerbacher
- olddustytrail 1y ago
  I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix
  - Y_Y 1y ago
    How is that supposed to make anyone click on an ad?
    - falcor84 1y ago
      Just to expand upon the reference, the comment you responded to is the first stanza of Allen Ginsberg poem "Howl" [0] published in 1956, which is what Hammerbacher paraphrased in the quote that I shared. "Howl" is amazing on its own though, and I highly recommend that people read the whole thing and/or watch the 2010 film about Ginsberg's life where James Franco recites it in its entirety[1]. And as a follow-up, I also highly recommend Scott Alexander's "Meditations on Moloch" that takes inspiration from the poem to analyze societal failures of coordination. [0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049402/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049402/ [2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
      - Y_Y 1y ago
        Thanks for adding the background, much more helpful than my glib nonsense. I feel that Meditations on Moloch should be mandatory study for anyone who lives in a society.
babypuncher 1y ago
I hate how in macOS, I can double click a window's title bar to maximize it, and five minutes later the original window size will be forgotten so you can't restore it. Windows 95 had this shit figured out on systems running a 486 and 6MB of RAM.
- happymellon 1y ago
  Not just the window size, but if you have more than one monitor, it won't always remember the screen. Oh, you double clicked to make it bigger? How about making it postage stamp sized in the bottom left of a different monitor...
duxup 1y ago
I feel like advertising relies on getting it right "enough" not for everyone and ... they don't care. Auth and settings people will tell you when it is wrong and that is generally thought of as a problem. Yet advertising doesn't care. For years Amazon kept showing me women's products. I never once bought any or looked them up but man they were sure I wanted to buy some. Google thought I was a Nebraska Cornhuskers fan but really I'm a fan of a rival, that's why I had to google a few things about them, but my old google news feed was sure I was a fan... even when they gave me a chance to say "no news about this team" they kept doing it ...

hamburglar 1y ago

It’s worse if you say no. It just keeps asking you. I don’t plug my phone into my Mac to charge it anymore. It’s just too annoying.

baggy_trough 1y ago

This is seriously annoying.

daneel_w 1y ago

Help yourself to the system setting "Privacy & Security -> Allow accessories to connect". The sane default is "ask every time", and you probably want "ask for new accessories".

phire 1y ago
That stops the computer asking, but it doesn't stop the phone asking. Apple changed this a few years ago, because of a potential security venerability: https://imazing.com/blog/ios-backup-passcode-prompt https://imazing.com/blog/ios-backup-passcode-prompt
- socalgal2 1y ago
  It's a known solvable problem though. Both devices can exchange public keys and every time they're connected they can validate those keys with each other.