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mnls··on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
Thank you Apple for this update. You saved me so much money because I won’t buy another Apple product.

I find it unacceptable that people pay that kind of money for iPhones and iPads etc and have to deal with bugs, bubbles, readability issues with a theme that looks like a terrible 2011 android skin. And that’s a trillion dollar company.

Staying on 18, till iPhone dies.

mnls··on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
Sure but right now we can't choose right? And no, I don't want to use any extension for a feature that simple.
mnls··on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site is prefers-color-scheme: dark.

You hear this, HN?

mnls··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
The fact that EU politicians exclude themselves from the ChatControl is all you need to know about this.
mnls··on Chat Control Must Be Stopped
Don't worry people. If you are not a European let me tell you how it goes.

The 'Unofficial' boss of European Union is Germany. If Germany will vote against it, more countries will back off and it won't pass. If Germany wants ChatControl, it's over. It will pass and all other undecided countries will support it.

Thankfully, Germany (so far) is against it.

mnls··on Reading RSS content is a skilled activity
There is a misunderstanding about RSS and escaping algorithms. Sure, you are not under the social media control but you certainly are under the publisher control. Now you have to see everything that they publish. Which makes it the absolutely worst way to consume news. It becomes overwhelming and if you want inbox zero it’s another digital burden. The result is that I pretty much lost interest on following some websites through RSS because even though I do like some of the articles, it’s another way of doomscrolling when searching for the one thing that will give you the dopamine hit.

So after excluding the vast majority of websites, I was left with 10-20 websites that I did enjoy ~60% of the content they put out and I've subscribed to their newsletter. Which in most cases is full of tracking links but that’s a case for another topic.

mnls··on Taking Notes with Joplin
The most complete open source Note taking app and exceptionally supported, it has its official Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux app. Exceptional (and e2ee) sync options too.
mnls··on Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google?
No, no, no. Since the iRobot fiasco Mozilla is dead to me. Now I'm just enjoying the (oh so well deserved) downfall.
mnls··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
Wow, no one is talking about the smell. Have you got any idea how terrible is the smell of a chicken coop? You do know that you have to get in there to clean it, right? This ain’t no fun activity. I prefer to get fewer eggs per month than to clean it myself (sometimes every day, it also depends on the weather too).
mnls··on I ditched the algorithm for RSS
RSS is a fantastic way of getting new articles, videos, updates etc from various sources that post 1-2 times per day at max. Getting news from News websites is hell, I had to do a LOT of filtering on Freshrss to make the news category less overwhelming. And if you wanna get to "inbox zero" you’ll spend a lot of time scrolling.
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