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> the outgoing 128GB model was already $250 after the price hikes earlier this year

This is a great point, a lot of the press coverage missed this.

Not having a cheaper alternative (eg a stick) was curious though. The baseline price of $300 might cause sticker shock.

I recently got myself a Lenovo P-series Thinkpad to test something. My main machine's an MBP, so I was prepared for some pain, but honestly even an old Windows 10 box feels less laggy than the Thinkpad's fully-patched 25H2. Using PopOS on an old Thinkpad easily beats this experience. (And omg the power draw on the P-series!)

I also concur with the "Updates for days" sub-head in the article. That's exactly what it felt like.

I'd love to see some competition in the commercial personal OS space. Windows 11 25H2 isn't a serious contender, I'd love to see what their recent efforts to refocus on native apps will bring.

I'm going to apply the Costco Test: grab a Windows 11 Surface Laptop at Costco and press Win+E to open Explorer. If it takes ages to paint, you've failed the test. Ditto for other bundled apps, including Edge.

For the MS folk reading this: native zsh on Windows, please?

WSL2 is great, but native POSIX is even better. Of course it’s a big undertaking, but it makes Windows a first-class dev platform for those who need POSIX in production.

Does this explain the numerous password reset messages I’ve received over the past year?

Yes, I was wondering about this. Old iPads running iPad OS 15 received updates last month. So even an iPad Air 2 from 2014 could receive updates in 2026.

The big issue with old iPads though is that apps drop support for older iPad OS versions. Usually their older versions do keep working, though.

> There's so much extra padding and rounding now

I don’t like it either, but I wonder if that’s to support the touch-enabled Macs that the rumor mill is reporting about right now.

In any case, Tahoe has many other issues beyond padding.

Liquid Glass is Apple’s Windows Vista. They had a ton of fun with Vista in their “switch” ads, if the Windows team were in better shape they could have a field day just screenshotting Tahoe on Social Media. Lucky they’re distracted with their own challenges.

Liquid Glass does have some good points, but it feels like someone turned in C- level work.

Shafting open source projects that implement your spec is not okay, and is terrible optics.

Tech journalists should ask the FIDO Alliance if they’re just Google+Apple+Microsoft in a trenchcoat. Definitely not very open!

Yes, UIDocumentPickerViewController is 10+ years old at this point.

There’s also a similar photos picker (PHPicker) which is especially good from 2023 on. Signal uses this for instance.

If you work with macOS or iOS users, you won’t be super surprised to see lots of “curly quotes”. They’re part of base macOS, no extra software required (I cannot remember if they need to be switched on or they’re on by default), and of course mass-market software like Word will create “smart” quotes on Mac and Windows.

I ended up implementing smart quotes on an internal blogging platform because I couldn’t bear "straight quotes". It’s just a few lines of code and makes my inner typography nerd twitch less.

I’ve been using em-dashes since high school — publishing the school paper and everything. I remain slightly bemused by people discovering em-dashes for the first time thanks to LLMs.

Also, “em-dashes are something only LLMs use” comes perilously close to “huh, proper grammar, must’ve run this by a grammar checker”.