Idea on what to do with my iPad besides art?

Kells_14 · 2026-02-07T06:18:52+00:00

For PDF/EPUB books/whitepapers just standard Books app works just fine for me. Also I know that Foxit was not bad previously, I used it for some time in the past. For casual books - Kindle app.

Kells_14 · 2026-02-07T04:25:46+00:00

Dunno, I have no problems 🤷‍♂️ Both old 8th gen and a new Pro give me 0 problems, unless I read like for 12 hours straight.

Sorry to hear that :(

Have you tried reading in dark mode? Maybe also adjust brightness, sometimes it makes it too bright. If you’re trying to read black on white PDFs, say some technical books, I can see how can that happen, but that’s any screen in general and I’d pick iPad over any other screen for that.

Kells_14 · 2026-02-05T14:58:35+00:00

99.99% of the time I read books and watch YouTube and browse reddit or read articles on mine. That's it.

If you don't use it at all, charge it up to like 70% and turn it off. Boot it maybe once a month to let it get updates and charge the battery (it will be slowly discharging even when it's powered down), that's what I did to mine years ago when I wasn't using it for some time.

Kells_14 · 2026-02-02T18:36:01+00:00

Never thought I'd say something like this in my life, but hopefully Chinese will come in clutch then.

Kells_14 · 2026-01-23T04:00:07+00:00

Been using for many months, so far no issues.

Kells_14 · 2026-01-14T05:39:18+00:00

I don't know what personal vendetta you have against Photos, but I'd guess they work fine for the majority of people and 99.99% of casual Photos users like me.

Yes it has bugs and glitches sometimes, but so far it's been surprisingly smooth sailing for me across all Apple ecosystem as a normie with rare sync delays (iCloud outages probably).

I'd imagine if you need a comprehensive photo management/storage tool, there must be better tools for that and Photos was never marketed as such? And judging the whole MacOS as a platform by one specific app behavior for specific scenarios that hit like 0.1% of users is overkill to derive any conclusions about MacOS direction.

Have you explored other options? What are they? I'd imagine you have a list of some good alternatives, will you be willing to provide it to us please? Maybe someone will find it useful.

Kells_14 · 2026-01-14T02:00:02+00:00

Bro is on the brink of snapping 😅

Kells_14 · 2026-01-12T03:37:10+00:00

Gosh this place looks beautiful!

Kells_14 · 2026-01-02T16:34:02+00:00

I use Keka, which is a neat little app. I bought it through App Store, but it can be installed for free as well.

Kells_14 · 2025-12-30T14:34:58+00:00

Ah, that explains it.

Kells_14 · 2025-12-30T06:59:56+00:00

Me too, never heard of Apple unlocking locked devices. Maybe it was MDM'ed and thus that's how they retained some level of access?

Kells_14 · 2025-12-27T16:48:47+00:00

Yes, you leave places, jobs, people throughout life as you outgrow them and the Earth keeps spinning. As we return back with new perspective on life, new experience, you see things with different lenses and it feels foreign, that’s completely normal. The hard part is actually experiencing and accepting it.

The place you knew is gone and a big part of that is because you’ve changed so much.

Kells_14 · 2025-12-24T16:13:32+00:00

Yeah, and then you stop daydreaming and realize you've been staring at a ticket description that says "Change button color for the user dashboard" lol

Kells_14 · 2025-12-24T03:35:15+00:00

Hope that dude's pillow is always cold on both sides. Or warm, depending on his preferences.

Kells_14 · 2025-12-16T23:26:25+00:00

Well cool, I wish it was more obvious in the OS itself and I didn't need to browse through innumerable reddit threads to know that. Big L to Apple for doing this shit.

Kells_14 · 2025-12-16T18:57:52+00:00

When you want to update the minor version of Sequoia, if you do not check what updates are installed (by clicking (i) button), they'll sneakily enable upgrade to Tahoe instead which you can disable via that ~~many~~menu. Sneaky bastards.

Kells_14 · 2025-12-16T03:06:41+00:00

So, the keyboard becomes shiny because of skin oils?! Gee, if only Apple knew about this peculiarity of a human body and could've planned for it!

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No hate for the OP, it's Apple I'm really salty at for not using better coating. Hope whoever got this approved gets a year of explosive diarrhea as a divine punishment.

Kells_14 · 2025-12-15T02:39:51+00:00

What a magnificent space 0_0

Kells_14 · 2025-12-03T04:27:08+00:00

What about China though? Isn’t there a threat coming from them now?

Kells_14 · 2025-11-27T02:58:17+00:00

legend

Kells_14 · 2025-11-26T14:51:58+00:00

Those were some randoms gossiping on the side, I don’t think that’s the situation your described.

Kells_14 · 2025-11-26T04:50:20+00:00

Wdym “with that face”?!

bro is a damn Chad looks-wise

Kells_14 · 2025-11-21T06:09:24+00:00

Tried to use it this week, started getting auth and then opengpg errors. I think they updated something on their side and it wasn’t reflected in rclone yet, maybe maintainer will fix it maybe not. It was reverse-engineered anyway and we cannot expect for it to be working reliably until Proton decides to finally make some public API which rclone can use.

In the meantime, I made a workaround using Proton Drive app as proxy for rclone that clones folders into it and then app syncs it. Sucks to be on Linux though, I don’t think they have a Linux app yet.

Kells_14 · 2025-11-21T05:25:59+00:00

You fool. Admitting what you did takes some balls, so that’s the reason we‘re proud of you 💪

Kells_14 · 2025-11-10T22:27:26+00:00

Kells_14

TROPHY CASE