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Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by nyarlathotep_ »

mort96 wrote: post #75
jjice wrote: post #43

I don't mind how Liquid Glass looks at all. It's just insane how buggy the system has become. Even Messages will bug out, like deleting my first word if I type too fast after opening a conversation or auto scrolling and not letting me scroll down until I exit and re-enter. Unacceptable for the premium you pay for Apple software. Unacceptable for any software one is paying for. I hope they get their shit together and…

I think parts of Liquid Glass on macOS looks pretty bad. But I don't care that much about how things look, so it doesn't offend me. What does offend me are all the bugs, as you say. It's still utterly broken all these months after the public release. Spotlight is a mess; I've seen it take DAYS before it has made an app in '/Applications' findable through search (even as the app shows up in Spotlight's long scrollable…

> It also often loads icons slowly; sometimes loading them in one by one over time, sometimes all at once after thinking for a second.

This is frequent, if not constant, on iOS for me. I never witnessed it before the 26 update.

How can it take an entire second or more to display an icon in list in the settings application? It was literally a solved problem for every iOS version I've ever used.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by dpedu »

stefanfisk wrote: post #12
egypturnash wrote: post #10

I just hope that my current Mac keeps being usable long enough that Liquid Glass has been fixed or replaced entirely by the time I'm forced to upgrade to whatever's shipping on my next computer.

My kid dumped a glass of water all over my MBP M1 a few days ago. Deciding between an inferior M4 with Sequoia or a fancy new M5 with Tahoe has been rough :/

There could be hope for it, but it might be too late now. I dumped tea on my M1 Macbook air earlier this year. I managed to save it - sort of. I had to replace the battery. The screen was working but also had liquid damage so I replaced it as well.

Immediately after spilling tea on it I shut it off, took off the bottom plate, rinsed it with water, and rinsed it again with isopropyl alcohol. I think I waved a heat gun over it for a bit and then left it in front of a fan. This was about 8 months ago and it still works!

The only lingering problem is that when caps lock is off, the light on the key is slightly illuminated. Weird, but I can tolerate that!

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

docmars wrote: post #256
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tiger with 10.5/10.6-style 2D grid virtual desktops and Mavericks traffic light buttons, or alternatively Mavericks with aqua scrollbars and 10.5/10.6-style 2D grid virtual desktops is very close to my ideal desktop environment.

Wow I completely forgot that Spaces were also vertically oriented. I miss that.

It was really nice. With the current linear design I organize desktops by theme (e.g. one for dev, one for research, etc) and with the 10.5/10.6 design I'd use vertical desktops for subcategories — so following the same example, on a single screen setup I might have desktops arranged something like:

   │   Rails Docs/Search   │   Backend Dev  │    Music   │
   ├───────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────┤
   │   UIKit Docs/Search   │     iOS Dev    │    Chat    │
   ├───────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────┤
   │  MDN/Web Dev Search   │     Web Dev    │ Email/News │
With this, I quickly develop muscle/spatial memory for where each category "lives" and can navigate there in a flash. It also substantially reduces the need for individual programs like browsers to bear organizational load, so for example suddenly "just" single-tier vertical tabs become sufficient, making browser workspaces and tree style tabs much less necessary.

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Post by FireBeyond »

hu3 wrote: post #168
api wrote: post #32

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All the non-technical people I know loved it. It's pretty. It's neat. It looks cool. Apple is a consumer products company. My personal feeling on it is just "meh." My productivity with my laptop hasn't changed. I'm not a huge fan but it's not a deal breaker. I still find it better than Windows 11 for the most part, and Linux has other issues as a daily driver for me. IMHO Apple needs a "tick" release where they only…

My wife is non-technical and hates it. She said it looks "ugly and childish". And I made sure to not bias her with my or HN's opinion about liquid glass. I patiently waited for her initiative to comment on the update.

Yup. I didn't say anything. My partner's first question to me was "is there any way to get rid of this?"

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by spike021 »

honestly the issue i hate the most is how bad the keyboard has gotten over the past 3-5 years/major iOS releases.

on top of the bug people mention a lot where types are miss-pressed, there's a problem i get where if iOS considers a word misspelled it'll refuse to let me use the space key or otherwise move away from the word or close the keyboard. it's almost like a UI thread lockout. it's extremely frustrating.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by macNchz »

rr808 wrote: post #69
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #67

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Dunno man, I’ve used Android recently and it’s still as bafflingly confusing and crappy as I remember it being. Definitely an “to each their own” kind of situation.

I think that is what you get used to. I've been using Android for over a decade and my wife's iPhone is super confusing to me.

I've had an iPhone since 2009 and feel they have gotten much more confusing over time.

It seems to be there has been some sort of internal conflict between the need to add basic functionality to be remotely comparable with Android, and the desire to keep everything "simple". The end result being a kind of a worst case of neither being especially featureful nor all that simple. There's a cottage industry of apps that exploit users' lack of understanding of their own device's capabilities (e.g. flashlight apps with ads + in-app purchases).

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Post by nyarlathotep_ »

SkyeCA wrote: post #46
cglan wrote: post #36

I think for the first time I’ve been considering moving off iOS because of liquid glass. The bugs on apple products have hit a breaking point for me. Mac is still unequivocally the best laptop around imho, but it’s less clear cut for phones. My iPhone 15 pro is borderline unusable. Every day is a new issue. I’m very much over it. You used to be able to count on the basics working smoothly, but stuff like the camera a…

I've recently been using an Android phone a family member gave me after they upgraded and to my shock it's...fantastic? It's not at all like I remember Android from back in the early Android days.

Things like media playback via a web browser (and really browsing in general) are so superior to iOS it's not even a fair comparison.

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Post by concinds »

kibwen wrote: post #123
DonHopkins wrote: post #95

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Apple employees should have kidnapped Alan Dye from his office and deposited him on Facebook's doorstep wrapped up in a straightjacket with ribbons and a bow years ago before he finally left voluntarily.

Using Dye as a scapegoat feels like cope. The rest of the executives were fully content with this effort, and in the end he wasn't even forced out. There's no evidence that Apple will correct its course without him.

> The rest of the executives were fully content with this effort, and in the end he wasn't even forced out

Tim Cook, by all accounts, can be very micromanaging and demanding when it comes to logistics underlings, but has been extremely hands-off with all his other underlings, doesn't insert himself into their loops or require his approval, doesn't decide by decree like Jobs which forces underlings to fight the bureaucracy on their own, leaves them to resolve conflicts among themselves on their own. He treats Apple like a machine or system where his role is to keep things running smoothly.

It's not "the rest of the executives", that's how Cook's Apple is run. Reportedly.

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Post by davnicwil »

FireBeyond wrote: post #239
rootusrootus wrote: post #186

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I recently upgraded (downgraded?) from an iPhone 15PM to a smaller iPhone 17P, and I have found myself wondering if I got a glitchy piece of hardware or if it's just iOS 26 bugs. I hardly had any problems with the previous phone, but on the 17 it's pretty routine that I have to close apps (including native Apple ones) which have become non-responsive. Frustrating, for sure.

Nope, that's iOS (I'm on a 16 Pro). I routinely have apps I can switch into but are entirely dead. They're not chewing CPU cycles, the phone is "cold". But very much so. So very frustrated.

the one I've noticed being the worst for lock ups is the camera / photos app, which is frankly very surprising given how central the photography usecase appears to be to iPhone sales and therefore Apple's bottom line.

I'm talking, I pull up the camera and try to take literally 4-5 shots quickly and by the 6th there's what feels like seconds of lag between the button press and the photo being taken.

It feels like I'm using an ancient camera phone, or a more modern phone but in extreme heat when the CPU is just throttling everything. But instead, this is a 2 year old iPhone at room temperature.

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