i think it matters when talking about ports, because those things should be approached with care and unfortunately a lot of them aren’t. a couple of extra frames probably doesn’t make a huge difference unless you’re really deep in it.
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One of these things if you’re not noticing you don’t need to worry.
I saw a review that mentioned the PC Engine Mini had game killing input lag on a few things and I can blame that on how a few of the shooters felt impossble. Like they specifically called out Bonk 1 and yeah that felt real bad. So I can’t entirely blame the game.
Audiophile shit basically.
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I stupidly upgraded PocketCasts for the first time in 5 years and regret it immensely and god trying to find out how to downgrade an app on ios is hell.
Anyone have experience uhh…going to a wares site and installing some ads and then getting a different version of the itunes store that lets you fucking downgrade an app. Lord.
The only Apple-supported way for downgrading apps is if you are regularly syncing with iTunes, you may have local copies of the IAP files that the App Store distributes apps in. If you do have a hard copy of that IAP file, you can drag it into the Applications list in iTunes and force it to sync over without needing to download the latest version from the App Store.
Otherwise, you’ve got like two alternatives, neither of which are particularly good:
- Without a jailbreak, requiring the usage of an enterprise distribution method. This is abusing an Apple-approved distribution method for applications meant for internal use in businesses. Malicious parties will generally try to trick you into installing an MDM profile which lets them do random shit like reconfigure your phone to route all its network traffic through them or being able to remote wipe your phone for the hell of it. Doesn’t seem great.
- With a jailbreak and the state-of-the-art piracy tech, you can just install arbitrary IAPs. But again, assuming you don’t have an IAP on hand, you will need to find an IAP that has had its DRM stripped from a trustworthy source. If you land upon an IAP that is laced with malware, well, you conveniently just opened up a bunch of vectors for malware to abuse that an unjailbroken phone wouldn’t have open.
They removed the app option from itunes windows lol.
Thanks!
There was a way around this according to a reddit thread that is now deadlinks oh well.
you definitely don’t even want to try doing this rudie FYI
that goes double for anything involving iTunes on Windows to interface with your phone
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yeah this is a very good way to look at it. “non-developer power user” does not exist for Apple the way it does elsewhere – if you don’t know how to compile something, you shouldn’t be trying to do anything out of band.
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I ended up getting freaked out because of a website, wiped the ipod twice, and now watching all the apps slowly slowly download again and I guess I will just deal with new pocketcasts.
Though I have a 2017 backup that does have old pocketcasts but I left that because had some baby pictures on the new one.
In short for reference: i halfway-followed some dumbass on youtube on how to downgrade snapchat. You went to a website and then it rooted your phone and then you were supposed to download some other crap. I got to a status bar that said rooting and went “hmm this seems bad.” And quit but got paranoid.
So will I wake up and spend nap time restoring the 2017 backup? Probably! And download everything again then open CopyTrans and throw 2000 mp3s at the ipod again. And then construct playlists in Apple Music because Apple doesn’t let you make playlists in 3rd party apps and lord does Apple Music suck why do I subject myself to this.
Also went ahead and changed my icloud password 3 times.
This all started because my ipod seems to be losing a charge in a day as opposed to a week.
God the end of this process is just me buying a new ipod.
Backups do not contain apps, because the system assumes that it can always be redownloaded to the latest version, so unless you have the IPA on your computer somewhere, you shouldn’t be able to restore the old version
That’s what everyone says and it did download…the old app? I am confused about it myself.
Huh. That’s weird.
usually when I wind up talking to other people about scenarios like this I am routinely surprised by how many of them do have complete backups containing entire old apps because they’ve been using iTunes with basically the same workflow since 2004 when they were copying mp3s onto an iPod, rather than the workflow that I’ve been using since I got back into the iOS ecosystem 5 years ago which seemed much technically cleaner and more modern but which Apple won’t explicitly push anyone onto: “never use iTunes, never plug it into the computer other than to charge, let it do remote backups to iCloud and use any other music ecosystem so you never have to think about syncing”
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like you can tell that they don’t really like the iTunes ecosystem much anymore themselves and mostly keep it around because legacy music purchases print money for them, but I’m still surprised at how like, the app defaults lead people who have been talked into moving to iOS to think that it still needs to work that way. especially since using iTunes on Windows is even worse than on Mac, it basically hasn’t been updated in a decade, and by plugging an iOS device into a Windows machine will still bring it up by default.
anyway I just replaced the battery in my iPhone X after almost 4 years and I fully plan to keep it for another almost 4 years, I have no doubt it will be supported at least that long, extremely good product, frequently irritating company
I like music not available on streaming apps, and Apple Music lets me mix in stuff I found elsewhere with the ethically dubious audio selection.
The interface sucks but to my knowledge it’s the only one that supports what I want.
all I want in life is to rewrite iTunes 4.x for modern computers and iOS devices because it works exactly how I want a music player to work and it has the best power to weight ratio of all iTunes versions
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spotify has let you sync your own mp3s into your library for at least as long as I’ve had this phone which originally came with a free spotify subscription that I converted, I assumed it was common among modern software
Yeah YouTube Music and previously Google Play Music let you upload your own stuff to your library.
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