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    Yes, in Apple land you can be reasonably sure that your ripped music is being gently mangled twice.
    Can you hear that with the further ANC mangling and being outside? In the vast majority of cases no, so you shoudn't think about it.

    For that reason I've historically preferred high passive isolation and either wired or non-Apple listening. I will usually have an Android with me when outside as well as the iPhones and I typically use the earphones that I have paired with said Android for especially self-hosted music... but in most cases I'm listening to podcasts on the iPhones / Airpods.

    If you want to swap out those ankers tho, Sony is the way to go despite the fact that the quality codecs it supports doesn't apply to anything Apple. Though since you bought anker and your mind jumped straight to B&W/B&O from Apple, maybe you might be happier with the Max...
     
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    Honeybog said:
    This was my exact thought when folding headphones came up. You’re supposed to commit to wearing your Pros Max in public. That’s probably why Apple bought Beats to begin with. Can’t have someone else muscling in on aspirational tech, especially not music peripherals.
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    They bought Beats for the streaming service. Apple pioneered the legal download service, and Jobs had (rightly) railed against the concept of "music rentals", but they could see the writing on the wall.
     
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    Aleamapper said:
    I got a new MBP on Friday and tried using Airdrop to transfer the important stuff across. I dont think I've ever come across a less reliable file transfer system in my life. It was just completely incapable of transferring more than a few tens of files or megabytes at a time.
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    Similar story here, on a two week old MBP. I have a different username (employer-mandated), so Time Machine won't work without copying the entire user. Airdrop between the same AppleID in neighbouring MBPS running the same OS would fail for anything with more than just a handful of files, leaving a lot of un-syncable, un-trashable stuff behind. Thank god I still have sudo on this machine.

    I ended up resorting to tarring and copying over a USB stick the important data, because I didn't want to mess with permissions on FAT/exFAT sticks, but in retrospect I should have just fired ssh and copy with scp or rsync.
     
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    Bonusround said:
    Can you speak to the build of these Sennheisers? What are the earcup materials, how durable does the headband material seem, etc?
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    “Nice”. They’re very comfortable, are a negligible weight, and the plastics all seem very well-finished. The earcup things are very soft and comfy (I’ve worn them for four-hour-plus sessions) and are made out of whatever soft earcup things are made of :)

    The headband seems pretty robust. How daily wear and tear will look - well, we’ll find out.
     
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    Oh, and in other unsurprising news, Bluetooth audio on Windows is absolute steaming dogshit. I’ll say no more on the matter because not this thread or this forum, but let’s just say that situation makes everything about our situation seem very, very good indeed.

    (tl;dr: just get wired headphones, or ones with their own proprietary wireless dongle)
     
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    jaberg said:
    Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri > About Siri, Dictation and Privacy (button at bottom.) From this panel, select Messages and toggle Show Siri Suggestions in Application Off
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    This does not disable the Apple Intelligence-driven reply suggestions in Messages-- only way to turn that off, AFAIK, is to turn Apple Intelligence off entirely.
     
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    singebob said:
    Yes, in Apple land you can be reasonably sure that your ripped music is being gently mangled twice.
    Can you hear that with the further ANC mangling and being outside? In the vast majority of cases no, so you shoudn't think about it.

    For that reason I've historically preferred high passive isolation and either wired or non-Apple listening. I will usually have an Android with me when outside as well as the iPhones and I typically use the earphones that I have paired with said Android for especially self-hosted music... but in most cases I'm listening to podcasts on the iPhones / Airpods.

    If you want to swap out those ankers tho, Sony is the way to go despite the fact that the quality codecs it supports doesn't apply to anything Apple. Though since you bought anker and your mind jumped straight to B&W/B&O from Apple, maybe you might be happier with the Max...
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    I was almost tempted around Black Friday to bite on one of the sales for over the ear wireless cans which have a list price of several hundred.

    But I wouldn't listen to them on a daily basis so even if they're discounted $100-200, it would have been a waste of money, for something I wouldn't use enough.

    I doubt I'd buy a Max. Maybe if the next revision had the best form factor, in terms of folding and case. Even then, probably not.
     
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    singebob said:
    It'll turn off the ones that apparently drove gagatron to the brink. The usual, normally dumb, Siri ones will still be there. Surely no-one's skin can be that thin to have those send you into a rage
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    This. It's no longer the sparkly rainbow bullshit, I think We'll see if my ex starts texting nonsense again today.
     
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    ^ I was/remain extremely weary of Tim's stoking of the AI hype machine and had intentionally refrained from updating to 18.3/15.3 – Apple Intelligence stayed off on all my/our Apple hardware. After the release of the .3.1 security updates however, I decided to hold my nose and do the updates, fully intent on immediately turning that half-baked nonsense off again immediately.

    To my (very large) surprise however, the goofy suggestion I'd picked up somewhere (here? Reddit??) to set Siri's language to one that is different from the system language setting (in my case system: US, Siri: UK) actually prevented AI from being turned on automatically following the 18.2/15.2 > 18.3.1/15.3.1 update this morning. Not on my MacBook Pro, not on the iPad Pro or any of our newer iPhones. AI remained off on all of them.

    So setting Siri's language to a different one from the "General > Language & Region" setting might actually do the trick for the time being.
     
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    Going to rant about the Wi-Fi experience in Mac OS. If you change the password on the router for an existing connection, Mac OS goes apeshit. It thinks the connection is still there, and the UI just freezes up to the point that you are going to spend many minutes to forget the network, and no, Mac OS is useless until you can solve it.

    No popups about entering a new password or anything, it just becomes an unresponsive mess. Windows 11 acts kind of in a similar manner, it just takes a while before it understands what is going on. Linux Mint does not care at all, its an immediate popup where you enter a new password.

    I change the passwords now and then - you know, a kid and "forgotten tasks" (that part works).
     
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    I've got one now.

    The Mail app on macOS can respond to incoming mail with automation. But only using AppleScript. Meanwhile, you have two other options for automation, Automator and Shortcuts. Each of these could be a good solution on its own... but each also feels like it has been abandoned by Apple engineers for the next new thing. They work well for little things, but they could be so much more complete. There is no interaction between Shortcuts and Mail, for example.

    In my case, I wanted to use AppleScript entirely, but I couldn't make it do all of the things I needed it to do. Debugging when run as a mail automation was silent, so I wrote a separate script that I could run using Script Editor. I got it to work there, but when run as an automation in Mail, something didn't work right. Did it have to do with the privacy architecture in macOS? The environment of the script? Who knows, because it failed silently!

    In the end, I used Mail to run a script that puts files in a temporary folder, which then has folder action attached to it, not an AppleScript this time—because the script failed silently again when attached to the folder—but a fucking Automator action that RUNS AN APPLESCRIPT.

    Make it make sense.
     
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    Honeybog said:
    For what its worth, you can set this up on the iPhone, but not on Macs. Shortcuts app > Automation > Email, then set the trigger you want.
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    I got to the first modal screen, and pressed next and... nothing happened. Looks like I found a new gripe.

    EDIT: Turns out that was a bug of some sort. The bigger issue is that there is no automation that will download attachments.
     
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    ProMacUser said:
    I've got one now.

    The Mail app on macOS can respond to incoming mail with automation. But only using AppleScript. Meanwhile, you have two other options for automation, Automator and Shortcuts. Each of these could be a good solution on its own... but each also feels like it has been abandoned by Apple engineers for the next new thing. They work well for little things, but they could be so much more complete. There is no interaction between Shortcuts and Mail, for example.

    In my case, I wanted to use AppleScript entirely, but I couldn't make it do all of the things I needed it to do. Debugging when run as a mail automation was silent, so I wrote a separate script that I could run using Script Editor. I got it to work there, but when run as an automation in Mail, something didn't work right. Did it have to do with the privacy architecture in macOS? The environment of the script? Who knows, because it failed silently!

    In the end, I used Mail to run a script that puts files in a temporary folder, which then has folder action attached to it, not an AppleScript this time—because the script failed silently again when attached to the folder—but a fucking Automator action that RUNS AN APPLESCRIPT.

    Make it make sense.
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    Shouldn't you be able to run your AppleScript as part of a mail rule? "Mail > Settings > Rules > Add Rule", and then: "If <Any/All Condition/s>, then perform action: <Run AppleScript>"?

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    Perhaps along the lines of the solution proposed by user Camelot on Apple's user forums? Never having attempted to automate Mail.app using AS myself, it would appear that the location of the saved script is important to it being accessible from within Mail.app's AppleScript dropdown menu.

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