manchmalscott

Well, this is probably my final straw. I guess it's finally time to switch to waterfox. I can't remember the last time Mozilla pushed out an update to firefox with a single good feature.

I swear Mozilla must have fired all their QA staff to free up money to throw at AI slop, firefox has become easily the worst piece of software that I still use regularly.

God I miss when I actually liked software, or felt anything other than disgust or apathy towards this industry. Everything sucks now.

Every job I’ve ever had has used ADP for payroll.

What is the benefit to the wider Linux ecosystem to upstream what looks to be a very android specific component?

I specifically prefer inverted controls in third person (tilting the stick up moves the camera up, so to point at the character it must then tilt the view down), but non-inverted controls in first person (tilting up points my view up).

I have some family members who updated this week so I have finally seen it in person (I don’t have any spare Apple devices to install beta software on), but I’ve also been watching videos of the various betas on YouTube over the past few months. For sure there have definitely been moments where I’ve seen like, an update in one of the betas where my reaction is “oh good they made that more readable than in the last beta” and then I looked at the same screen on my phone not on the beta and the consistency of the legibility is just night and day. Liquid glass can be presented in specific scenarios that look good, great even. It’s a very neat shader pack. Very “rule of cool”. Unfortunately, I prefer “rule of I can always read the words” and there are plenty of scenarios where liquid glass falls apart, even in the official non beta release.

I first realized that it might be a mess back at WWDC when they showed the apple TV ui, commenting on how the refractive glass “seamlessly blended into the content” or whatever all the while, in their own highly produced advertisement, I couldn’t help but find that the refractions were noticeably distracting. I couldn’t focus on anything else.

It feels like the UX equivalent of watching a Mr beast video, just maximum stimulation all the time. Maybe that’s their strategy for appealing to a new generation of smartphone users (</joking>).

I was initially thinking of upgrading to the 17 pro, I always appreciate better battery and the additional antenna bands could maybe help with the awful cell reception where I live, but buying a new iPhone would mean being forced to use iOS 26, and by extension liquid glass, which you could not pay me to do.

> I used an LLM for wording

It's incredibly obvious. I'm not doubting the actual information here, it's clearly thorough and well researched. The issue is that I cannot _stand_ the hyper-homogenized cadence and style that all LLMs use. It's "Corporate Memphis" all over again. I don't understand why everyone is so violently afraid of something looking like a human being made it?

Oh my god, I thought you were exaggerating at least a little.

The “static preview” it shows while it loads (for like 10-15 seconds!) is so much smoother and nicer to scroll around than the actual thing. On mobile, every third scroll attempt actually opens the right click context menu. It’s a stuttering mess on my high refresh rate phone. Nobody should ever make websites like this.

I think at this point I should just bite the bullet and switch to waterfox. I’m tired of every single update coming with even more things to disable in about:config.

YouTube premium recently added a “lite” tier. I don’t use YouTube music and I don’t watch shorts or music videos on YouTube, so I’m able to have the channels I watch get compensated without paying for what I perceive as unnecessary and non-core features of the platform.

Clearly such a thing is possible, and a company which insists it isn’t is fundamentally either uncreative or user hostile.

I'm fine paying for search, but I don't want to use LLMs and therefore I don't want to _pay_ for access to LLMs that I'm not going to use. If Kagi offered a lower cost subscription with zero LLM bullshit then I would happily resubscribe. I'm not holding my breath though, being able to actually find information on the internet is just probably dead forever.

Phoenix LiveView also solves this. One request sends a lightweight event message over web socket, and the web server responds with only the new html (or the new content to insert into specific places in the template).

They have added an option to disable marketing messages in the wallet app..... in the new iOS 26 beta. which uh, really makes it look like they were not planning on doing this just this once.

In the article it’s pretty clear that they do put the go code in a separate executable and it connects over the BEAMs existing node RPC.

I flew out of PHX Sky Harbor back in February this year, and still needed my boarding pass through security. I’m glad to hear that’s slowly changing though, I’ll be glad when we catch up.