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DESCRIPTION: A space for anyone who uses Apple products, appreciates what they get right, and wants to talk plainly about what they don’t. This is a friendly place for healthy criticism. You don’t have to love the company. You don’t have to hate it either. If you want honest discussion about Apple hardware, software, ecosystem choices, design decisions, frustrations, or pleasant surprises, you’re welcome here.

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You use Apple. You think about it. (Maybe you think different). That’s all it takes to participate here.

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Apple is getting on my nerves (lemmy.today)

submitted 21 hours ago by npdean@lemmy.today to c/saltycaramelapple@sh.itjust.works

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I use a lot of programming and sef hosting things at home. I have to enter passwords and write basic text files which have to be accurately read by all devices.

I, for the life of me, could not manage to solve a problem about a password. I tried many forums and what not and eventually a person on one of the forum said that my syntax is incorrect. I was so confused because I have done the exact same thing hundreds of times and it never caused an issue.

What I wanted to write was (quotes are a part of it) 'xyz'. This is what my PC writes. iOS decides that it should be ‘xyz’. There is a subtle difference in the quotes if you look carefully.

I wanted to trash by iPhone and buy an Android so bad at that moment.

Anyways that setting can be changed by turning off smart punctuation in keyboard settings. But the point is trashy defaults with no clear communication about it.

This whole post might be stupid and petty but it is pushing me to stop using everything Apple.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 10 points 20 hours ago (12 children)

Fwiw, the iOS SDK provides a way for text fields to declare that “smart punctuation” should be disabled when typing into them.

For example, my terminal app always has it disabled. Password fields default to having smart punctuation disabled.

So I’m kinda curious how you’re doing it.

[–] npdean@lemmy.today 1 points 19 hours ago (11 children)

I am entering passwords in plaintext as environment variables for docker.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

iOS decides

You should paste the password from your password manager, and I'm pretty sure you're not doing that. Also why are you using iOS for Docker? If it's true, you would have the same issue with Android.

[–] npdean@lemmy.today 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I have to use quotes around the password, that is the issue.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works -1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Again, no issue if you use a password manager. Use a password manager FFS.

[–] npdean@lemmy.today 1 points 13 hours ago

You probably don’t understand my use case. I have to enter the password in clear text in a configuration file on a server.

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