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Hmm, funny, because I literally just set up a Win11 PRO machine yesterday, I could still create a local account, no bypass script needed. Your links only apply to Home editions.
We shouldn’t give them praise for gatekeeping it behind a paywall.
Ever since the liquid glass update, my wallpaper is just a muted color. I investigated the settings and previously my wallpaper was the "blur" version of my lock screen. Since the liquid glass update, "blur" apparently means "99% blur" instead of the 20-30% blur it used to be. The muted color does seem to be an average color of the lock screen image. But nothing recognizable.
I hope they keep the switch allowing you to disable Apple Intelligence.
This is my biggest concern. I've only stuck with Apple during this AI nonsense era because the parental/screentime controls allow to me completely shut it down, and I've never toggled it on in the Siri/AI options. It took a while but the 7GB they initially stole from me for the AI nonsense I'm not using eventually cleared itself out of storage. I already have Siri limited to manual activation only. If they force all…
They fixed all the extremely egregious issues with Liquid Glass, good to see. It's still an extremely ugly, "worst of both worlds" combination of wasted space (from early-gen flat design) with gaudy effects (from late-gen skeumorphism), but at least now it is usable. I'd never update to macOS 26, but 27 I might, begrudgingly.
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On their WatchOS page, about halfway down: https://www.apple.com/os/watchos/
Has to be a fuckup. watchOS 26 supported the Series 6 onwards. I don't think Apple has ever cut 3 generations of devices with a single yearly OS upgrade unless there's an underlying architecture reason for it before. This might be the list for Siri AI supported watches or something.
They fixed all the extremely egregious issues with Liquid Glass, good to see. It's still an extremely ugly, "worst of both worlds" combination of wasted space (from early-gen flat design) with gaudy effects (from late-gen skeumorphism), but at least now it is usable. I'd never update to macOS 26, but 27 I might, begrudgingly.
I appreciate making it available to everyone but it feels like there needs to be some kind of middle ground. IOS development just isn't as much fun absent the in-person community.
I hope they keep the switch allowing you to disable Apple Intelligence.
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At least, unlike microslop, they ARE fixing things based on user feedback.
So is Microsoft, albeit a bit late to the party. Taskbar now movable, performance improvements hitting insider builds, MS BUILD half about WSL containers, native coreutils, a dev edition of windows using Winget config to strip all the bloat out, all new system dialogs replacing a good chunk of the old Win32 stuff, WinUI reactor, ability to remove AI models & Copilot from the OS, etc. Classic case of the reality disto…