As many are aware, there are many bugs plaguing the Shortcuts app on iOS 15. Many of these issues were factors within the beta period and a still carried over to the official release.
There are many posts seeking help by simply starting “my such and such shortcut doesn’t work, please help.” With these posts, I ask that you title the post of the root issue you may be having such as “not appending to note” or “not copying to clipboard”, etc so that we can narrow it down to the actions that are having issues. This will in turn make it easier for other users who are having similar issues with said actions and can join in on the discussion and we not have a flood of posts seeking the same help.
A helpful title would be “My shortcut no longer sends a message on iOS 15” or “No longer to delete file on iOS 15” and so on.
I like to wake up to music, but I don’t like the single song option in the Clock app, and I don’t like waking up to the same song over and over. I like the gradually increasing volume of alarms in the Sleep/Bedtime settings, but there are no music options. I made a shortcut to address all of these issues. I use time based automations to run the shortcut/alarm at different times depending on the day.
- set volume to 35%
- increase volume by 5% every 20 seconds (it will reach 100% volume in 6.5 minutes)
- check date:
-- if Monday, play Get Up! Mix
-- if Tuesday, play Favorites Mix
-- If Friday, play New Music Mix
-- If Sunday, play Chill Mix
-- If Wed, Thu, Sat, play 25 random songs from my library that haven’t been played in the last 2 months
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/18b1c10e622d438b9d37eee6045b8627
I’ve been using this shortcut as my primary alarm for around 1 year. I’d guess the automation has failed to trigger less than 10 times in that …
It’s hard to describe what I mean, but I’m looking for podcasts that aren’t just a bunch of friends shooting the shit. Podcasts like Freakonomics, The History of Rome and Strangeville where there’s almost a narrative and the podcast is structured end edited.
It seems like every podcast I find is just a group of friends chit chatting about their day/lives and loosely discussing the topic at hand.
Open to any subject matter.
Every time I close the app it deletes the podcast queue I had lined up (including the show I am partway through) and replaces them all with the next unlistened to episode of whichever show I finished an episode of most recently (and a new queue of that show’s unlistened to episodes). Extremely dumb.
Is there any fix to this (apart from redownloading Overcast, again)?
Edit: Lol… foolish of me to have asked, probably. Wanted to be optimistic about the Apple app and not have to change my routine too much, but maybe this time I’ll have learned to move on properly. Not worth the trouble. Downloaded Pocket Casts and will be trying that out. Not finding a few of the pods that I listen to on there yet, however.
Hey, so I was browsing this subreddit for pod recommendations and I stumbled upon Limetown. Didn’t do too much research - just downloaded the first episode. Well I listened to it and quickly got hooked. I was absolutely blown away. I was sending links to family and friends to start listening. I was baffled - how had I never heard of this podcast? Y’all when I tell you that i was in the last 2 minutes of this podcast before i realized that it wasn’t a true story?!! Egg on my face. Colour me stupid. I just figured the interviews were re-recorded to hide the people’s identity. I fully believed that people were communicating with their minds and that her uncle had superpowers.
Anyway. What a blissful few days of ignorance. Did anybody else think for a brief period it was true?
I’ve been loving this sub! I’m learning a lot and have a great list of podcasts going.
Just wanted to give a shout out to those that recommended Swindled. I love it! True crime meets simply fascinating stories. Well written and delivered. Interesting way of introducing the story of the week with the ‘preludes.’
Once you get used to the somewhat robo-voice, you don’t even notice it anymore.
So thank you, and keep the reccs coming!
Almost constantly listen to MDWAP on a loop but want to take a break. Anyone any suggestions of something in a similar vein ? Thanks !
I realize this thread has been done before but it was years ago when the community was much smaller and it’s one of my favorite threads of all time.
So as per the title pick three books for beginners, three for “veterans”, and three for “experts” in any genre you want.
Edit i just cam from school i was not expecting all these comments WOW! thanks for the awards
Edit:
277 Unique Book Recommendations were received, a total of 453 recommendations provided.
The top 10 books account for 126 total recommendations (~28%), which are the following:
(## of recommendations/Book/Author/Pages/Series/# of books/Total Pages)
29 Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling (223) series = 7 total books (3,407)
25 The Martian by Andy Weir (482)
15 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (386)
13 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (318)
12 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (133) series = 6 books (1,370)
10 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (397)
8 Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien (1,224)
5 The Future of Work: Compulsory by Martha Wells (2, 144) Murderbot series = 6 total books (1,209)
5 Enders Game by Orson Scott Card (324)
4 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (127)
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Well, as the title suggests, .. I feel a little awkward.
I’ve …
It’s a broad question, but I’m interested in books that resonated with you because of a deeply personal kinship you felt towards the story or character(s). Maybe there’s an aspect of your identity often misrepresented, or entirely overlooked in literature. Perhaps you’ve seen your culture or your place of origin stereotyped or written about from the outsider’s perspective too many times before. Whatever it is, I’d love to know the book that finally got it right. The story that felt as though it could have been written about you as well as for you.
Already read and enjoyed:
Treasure Island
Sea Hawk
Captain Blood
Really appreciate the help
Basically the title. I’m looking for a book (I tend to gravitate towards sci-fi and realistic fiction, but I’ll take any suggestions) with a transgender/non-binary character. Specifically, I’m looking for one where gender ISN’T the main plot point. Just a story where a character happens to be trans or non-binary. Said person doesn’t even need to be the main character. I just haven’t seen much representation in literature and I really want to find some.
Any ideas?
Edit: WOW I have never gotten this many comments on a post before. Thank you so much everyone for all of the amazing suggestions! I’m sorry I can’t reply to all of you, but I will find the time to look into ALL of the recommendations eventually.
What I mean by that is something like Fallout New Vegas or Cyberpunk 2077, I’m just a random nobody trying to do my own thing, then, before I know it, I’m caught up in a massive conspiracy involving every major player on the continent, each vying for control, and I’m stuck in the middle of it. What I don’t want is Skyrim, where I’m the chosen one with supernatural abilities only told of in legend that automatically make me better than everyone, or Fallout 3⁄4 where my family is directly tied to the major factions in some way.
As long as I’m not the chosen one and I don’t have any direct stock in any of whats happening in the story beyond “Someone needed you to run a mundane, everyday errand for them, and now you have no choice but to become god”, but not “You were found doing mundane tasks, turns out you’re god”.
I’m the gamer in the family. I’ve been playing video games since the 70’s. Mainly pc but a sprinkling of consoles over the years. My husband doesn’t really play. I got him to play halo with me like 15 years ago and I think that’s the last game he played. He does like to watch me play things like BOTW and calls me his personal twitch channel lol.
So my question is if you could suggest your number one game for two people that I could convince my husband to play with me what would it be? I have pc and switch but I’m thinking about getting another console so all suggestions welcome.
Thanks!
These are the singleplayer games that I’ve played and kinda fit the criteria: >!Modded Skyrim/TES, Fallout, Dragon’s Dogma, Disgaea, Siralim, Monster Hunter World, Kenshi, Terraria, Rune Factory 4 (but it’s not PC so I’m not looking for something like it), Minecraft, Valheim, Melvor Idle (but not looking for idle games), Diablo/Grim Dawn/LastEpoch/Torchlight.!<
Not really looking for games like Rimworld or Factorio right now (I’m looking for RPGs, control your character and grind pretty much), played them all anyway :P.
Thank you :) No roguelikes/lites though please :D:
You could have a jewelry collection or properties, houses, businesses, not simply having $100,000,000 etc. Perhaps something like the Sims but more economy focused, or not even unlike an RPG that allows you to do this
I do own Ark and she’s expressed some interest in that, but it’s like 100GB and I think she’d have more fun with something that’s not an MMO anyway. Examples of monsters she thinks are really fun include Cthulhu, the aliens from District 9, and this:strip_icc()/pic6051621.jpg).
I’m the kind of gamer that sticks to a few online games (League of Legends, Smash Bros, Pokémon…). I’ve played almost no single-player / graphically-intensive game since the Gamecube era. But I bought an RTX now, so it better be worth! What are some graphically astonishing games that will make me GPU cry and let me explore beautiful, detailed, magical worlds?
Bonus question: is there any game where I can just walk around cities like Rio de Janeiro in 4K?
Edit: too many comments to reply everyone, but I’ve read it all. Many great suggestions, and some games were suggested by multiple people. Thanks everyone <3