Month: January 2021

Wow Apple, you just can’t seem to learn from your mistakes can you?

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/19/airpods-max-excessive-battery-drain/

This comes from the Macrumors website:

Complaints range from high battery drain while the headphones are in use to significant battery loss when the headphones are meant to be idle. MacRumors reader VL_424 explains:

Been using my AirPod’s Max since Launch Day, over the last few days I’ve been running into some severe battery drain.

For example, last night I took the headphones out of the case with 85% battery, used them for about 15 minutes, put them back into the case.

This morning I get a notification via my iPhone that there was only 5% left. I wasn’t even attempting to connect to the ‌AirPods‌, I was airplaying to the HomePod in the room. It’s strange that the AirPod Max’s were even awake as they were still sitting in the case.. anyone else experiencing problems like this?

So why can’t Apple let the end user decide what do to with their super expensive AirPod speakers?

Does Apple think that the decision to power off the AirPods are beyond the comprehension of owners?

There’s more too.

Many MacRumors readers are seeing high levels of battery drain overnight, sometimes in double digit percentages, but most are seeing approximately 10 to 12 percent battery drain per day when the headphones are not in use. There have also been reports from some users who saw their headphones drain completely over the course of the day. From MacRumors reader DaSal:

The standby battery life really is poor. I’ve only had these for about two weeks and it’s already happened that I wanted to use them only to find out they completely emptied overnight. You can’t actually store them at 30% and assume you can use it next time you want to.

Some users believe that the issue may be related to the ‌AirPods Max‌ not disconnecting from devices when placed in the case or when entering low power mode. From MacRumors reader Broken Hope:

Seems to be an issue of them not disconnecting from all devices properly.

I got mine yesterday, used them with my phone, got annoyed that my Mac kept saying that the ‌AirPods‌ were nearby and disabled auto switching on my Mac, when I put them away for the night my Max’s were still showing in the battery widget on my Mac, thinking it was a glitch I went to work, I’ve come back and my Max’s have drained to 27% since yesterday evening.

With no power off option it seems that the ‌AirPods Max‌ are going to drain somewhat overnight even in low power mode, but given the number of reports about excessive battery drain, it seems that there could be a software bug that Apple will need to address in the future.

Like ‌AirPods‌ and ‌AirPods Pro‌, Apple is able to push over-the-air firmware updates for ‌AirPods Max‌, but to date, there have been no new firmware releases.

Your move Apple.

Today is the 20th of January.

Whilst I’m sitting at home in Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA, I know that in a few short hours the tenure of the 45th President of the United States of America will end – finally!

To all who bleat on and on about how this election was stolen from Donald John Trump and the GOP (that’s Grand Old Party for those who don’t know) – it wasn’t by the way, but who am I to say, I say it’s about time that the USA can finally regain some of its dignity again.

To Joe Biden and the Democrats, please do the right thing and fix the mess that Donald Trump has made in his 4 years.

Wow.

So you may have notices that my site has been, well fucked for about 10 days.

This has been because of 2 reasons.

The first, is that I’ve got a new job with a major Australian bank.

The second, is despite my efforts and my desire to start again, I was determined to not be beaten by this unexpected clusterfuck of a bug when I did security patches.

This morning, I finally found it, and low and behold, it was such a simple fix that I’m just blown away that:

1. This occurred in first place by the version of CentOS, and
2. No one else knew how to fix it (until now).

So instead of getting an http error message 500, this site is now working.

If anyone is remotely interested in the fix – hit me up via my email address here.

Beware, I’m about to rant at the selfish, tiny cocked knobs that don’t want to respect the covid-19 situation we are in at the moment.

Victoria had 60 blissful days of zero locally obtained infections due to a strict quarantine – until just before Christmas.

The tiny cocked knobs that won’t respect just how infectious covid-19 can be are to blame. These same tiny cocked knobs are a combination of aeroplane workers from America who believe that to quarantine themselves somehow goes against the constitutional rights, the self opinionated anti-vaxers, and incompetent Australian government officials who are too spineless to insist that everyone, regardless of what they do and where they are from must go into 14 days quarantine.

On Sunday, December 27th, I was walking Ollie (my golden Labrador) at Parkdale beach, which has subsequently been deemed a hotspot for corona virus.

Yesterday (December 31st), I was informed that I should get tested for corona virus.

After nearly 5 fucking hours in a car, I did indeed receive an oral swab, and a nasal swab (that fucking well felt as if it touched my brain).

This morning at 6:19am, I received a negative result for covid-19 – thankfully.

My rant is this. Why, oh why do I, who’ve dutifully performed the requirements of the first and second lockdowns which lasted 4 fucking months, have to put up with fucking micro cocked wankers who risk a fucking third lockdown by spreading an incredibly contagious virus like covid-19?

2021 is here – finally.

2020 is finally over and not a minute too soon.

So, to everyone, please be careful and covid-19 smart until there is enough vaccine for those who need it and want to receive it.