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Yes! It feels faster and more responsive now because it is faster and more responsive now. Your device is taking less time to do the same work.

For me, animations are the torture, and I am most productive on machines that aren't artificially hobbled with animations one can't turn off.

Your experiences are not universal.

Unless you can back that up, "Majority" is something you're making up. It's a guess.

It also doesn't matter whether it's true if the majority or not- "Instant transitions are only good in theory" is not a true statement. Instant transitions are good in practice for many people and that has been true for decades.

An app with no animations feels awesome. It's great and it doesn't take my brain any time to process what happened since I already knew what was going to happen when I press the button that makes things happen on purpose.

Maybe you dislike them, but that does not make for a fact.

Instant transitions are something I strongly prefer and use in practice. There's no question, I don't want my operating system slowing itself down to a factor (literally) of 1000x, pointlessly fading and jiggling and sliding and bouncing and wiggling. And, as this article points out, animations in operating systems often make a visually illegible mess in the meanwhile.

Animations might be a good idea in theory, but it doesn't seem like anyone has figured out how to do them right.

Yes!! I agree with this entirely.

As far as I know, the best data the rest of us have is Google Trends. And based on that, it really does look like Liquid Glass elicited the largest negative reaction that Apple has ever had to an OS release.

"How to Switch to Android" hit 3x its all time peak, "iPhone revert update", hit 4x its all-time peak, "iPhone slow" hit 8x its all time peak, "iPhone bad now" hit 5x its all time peak, "iPhone fix battery" hit 3x its all-time peak (and 14x its five-year peak)

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=how%20to...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=i...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2...

I mostly looked at this for iOS, but searches like "macOS slow", "mac slow", "fix mac battery", "fix mac", etc. all show similar hockey-stick jumps as Liquid Glass rolled out.

If this means a sudden highest-ever 10x shift in customer dissatisfaction - 1000% - then that has to have been significant.

The Apple Music thing bothers me and adds friction to my life every single day that I use MacOS.

We're on a tech forum where everyone here is aware (or at least can understand) how SIP is useful for the security model on MacOS. But for plenty of people with this problem, SIP is only the thing you learn can disable so you can immediately make your life a little better.

The crazy ones are Apple here, since this problem should not require disabling SIP to fix.

You can not do this on MacOS, at least on MacOS 26 on Apple Silicon without SIP disabled. I was:

- Unable to drag from the Applications drawer to Trash

- Unable to drag from the Spotlight search to Trash

- Unable to drag from Finder (in ~/Applications) to Trash

- Unable to delete (in Finder)

- Unable to delete (through rm in terminal).

This has been a bother for years across MacOS versions and I've tried variations of these, personally.

In the future, you might consider not denigrating others in this way. It is hard to save face when you are wrong. And it is hard for others to provide an avenue for you to save face while also pointing out that your statements are not true.

One scenario:

1. You have an iPhone, a Macbook, and AirPods.

2. You are listening to a podcast or song on your iPhone using your AirPods.

3. You press your AirPods stem to pause the podcast or song on your iPhone.

4. You press your AirPods again, expecting to continue the podcast or song on your iPhone.

5. Your AirPods are now connected to your Mac, which is opening Apple Music. This takes a long time to complete.

Note that you can not remove the Music app from MacOS without serious compromises to MacOS. It is a slow, awful resource hog that I personally never want to use, and it rubs me the wrong way. My impression of Apple is much lower for it.

Only up until the point the judge says, "Meta files a motion to compel arbitration and it looks like you're bound to that arbitration clause. You didn't send a letter during the provided 30 day window. It all checks out, good luck to you both."

Then you will be competing in an American Arbitration Asssociation's 'Alternative Dispute Resolution', which is even less favorable for the consumer :D

You are 100% able to sue, but, in the US, the result of that suit is 99.9% that you will be held to that arbitration clause anyways, with an arbitrator of Meta's choosing.

Arbitration clauses are very strong in the United States and have been getting stronger for years. Across both Democratic and Republican administrations, in state and federal courts, judges constantly reaffirm that these provisions are binding. Even literal shrinkwrap arbitration clauses on foods (Vital Proteins, Daily Harvest), etc. are upheld.

Exceptions are rare, such as unborn babies getting sick who never signed a clause such as with Daily Harvest, or when a case is public enough to draw backlash such as with the Disney+ trial arbitration clause being used to prevent a man whose wife died at a DisneyWorld restaurant from suing. Even parents suing on behalf of their pre-teenage children (e.g. against Snapchat in an Illinois court) find themselves blocked by arbitration.

There is no way merely having someones Instagram hacked and having "their username stolen" (not something possible, it's Meta's property) will make for such a rare scneario.

Per Instagram's ToS, if you sued instead of filing a Notice of Dispute (i.e. arbitration), you would be forfeiting the provision where Meta pays for your arbitration and other fees for claims less than $75,000. You would also be risking a decision from the arbitrator (AAA, who you should expect to be biased to favor Meta) that you would also need to pay Meta's legal fees.

If you try to sue, your lawyer will tell you all this.

Not expecting to win a dime from Meta, your lawyer would only represent you if you have pockets deep enough to fight a losing fight.

You shouldn't be getting downvoted, you're right.

I disagree with policing someone elses language like this in the first place, but it's only one insult and it's just "Microslop".

SandboxEscaper is still alive, but yeah, Eclipse's prolific vuln dropping reminds me of her.

When I hear that people own cameras, what I hear is that people are okay with children being harmed for the sight convenience of the freedom to create photographs. Let's just be honest about how we're calculting things: You think living without a camera, which is how humanity has lived for 99% of its existence, is worse than children being groomed.

I love numbered paragraphs, but this is the standard for religious texts, no? Famously so for centuries?

I love it when old stuffy institutions are on the cutting-edge of clarity of communication as much as anyone else. (The SEC with its "HOW EQUIFAX NEGLECTED CYBERSECURITY AND SUFFERED A DEVASTATING DATA BREACH" report where nearly each section title was a complete sentence, making the Table of Contents also serve as a summary, got me very very excited).

I would welcome, numbered paragraphs _and_, an HTML standard, and full-sentence-section-titles in the world of academia.

This is more needlessly dismissive rhetoric. You don't really believe it's eleven people.

This sentiment is widespread enough to be a common point of comedy and conflict, and it's widespread enough problem that consumer intelligence companies have been reporting on this for years ( https://www.jdpower.com/sites/default/files/file/2025-09/202... , https://www.vibilagare.se/english/physical-buttons-outperfor... , https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/tesla/model-y/2020/road... , etc.) If you spend time in the lobby of a kiosk-only fast-food, you are sure to hear someone complain too.

I know "touchscreens are the future and those button-lovers are rarities who will die out soon" was a popular thing to believe, but that was back in the 00s. People like b uttons.

"Crying" is needlessly dismissive and it doesn't strengthen your position.

I'm happy there is a mass of popular sentiment that consumer devices are better with buttons. I think they're to whom we can credit the return (or addition of new) buttons to cars, to phones, and to all manner of appliances (induction stoves, thermostats, ACs.)

In either case, it looks like the last Kindle with buttons disappeared only late 2024, a year and a half ago. This was a recent enough phenomena that these complaints make sense. Amazon still has a chance to get with the times and release an eReader with buttons.

You are only making complaints about criticisms (which you acknowledge as legitimate). If complaints from consumers about consumer devices are pointless and the consumers are "vocal crybabies", then how would you categorize yourself and your complaints about their complaints?

Every decision is made with imperfect information about the tool, its future, and your current/future needs. This is a normal type of engineering decision.

Bun being replaced entirely with stochastically generated code is red flag (regardless of whether it was or not). But Bun was also acquired by a huge corporation, which has been classically a huge red flag. Both of these are plenty of reason for yt-dlp not to support Bun.

In either case, this seems like a niche use case. I've used yt-dlp for years and I've never used Bun with it. If Anthropic really wants their recent acquisition to be supported in yt-dlp, it can fork it and support it itself.

This author is excellent. I found their blog earlier today when relaying advice on setting up an iPhone for someone to use after a stroke. ( https://veroniiiica.com/iphone-accessibility-settings-for-st... )

> When I'm typing, there's a delay, then all the letters pop up at once. You took a good phone, and you made it all shitty. It pissed me off.

Maybe, but I don't use it and nobody I know uses it. It's a very politically divisive platform, and users without an account can't post on there.

There are plenty of reasons not to use X, but that's not what's in contention. X.com was the _only_ platform they shared this information on.

It bears repeating: Github decided not to use email, which every GitHub customer has, and Github chose not to use their sites, and GitHub chose not to use their otherwise active BlueSky.

It bears pointing out: They posted this exclusively on X, and they did not need to do that. They are not "reaching the largest amount of people, companies".

It would be one thing if they could only use one channel. If they could only choose one, that would be email, which every GitHub user has.

They could use email, as well as status.github.com, their blog (which also has an RSS feed https://github.blog/feed/), and post it on their otherwise active BlueSky (which, unlike X, does not require an account to see their posts).

People who never hear about GIMP in the first place are never going to use it.

Someone asks, "How did you make that?" and your answer is PhotoShop and not GIMP. That's one less person who might use GIMP, and one less person who might introduce GIMP to other people, and so forth.

I have a rebuttal, but before you can hear it, you'll need to give me your email, your government ID, and you'll need to agree never to sue me in the court of law and to waive your right to a jury trial.

Wait, I just instituted usage quotas, you'll have to give me $8 and your credit card, too.

It's to point out how comparatively small X is. It's in the same ballpark as Pinterest and Quora.

Github decided not to use email (which every Github customer has), their sites, or their otherwise active BlueSky.

It's certainly not the right platform. It'd be one thing if they had any official communication on the matter anywhere else. Maybe they're ashamed and are trying to limit the visibility while only technically issuing an announcement.

They announced this exclusively on X.com, which ranks barely above Pinterest in terms of usage. That's below Reddit, Snapchat, WeChat, and Instagram, and requires a user account to view profiles and posts. And that's ignoring all the reasons X is a divisive platform with an extreme political bent.

GitHub chose not to announce this on any other social media either (BlueSky, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, or Mastodon, as of this posting, and with no emails sent on the matter.)

Hey, I'm just describing how some words are used

No no, the other way around; hard R ends in 'er', and soft R ends in 'a' (despite not having an R).