Look, it's not just that iOS 26 has bugs. Bugs are fine. All software has bugs.

But iOS 26 is incoherent. It makes the system less intuitive and harder to use. It reneges on design principles laid down in Apple's Human Interface guidelines. I don't even mind how flashy it is--the glass effect really IS cool sometimes. But touch targets are worse, information bleed-through is confusing, and it does the EXACT OPPOSITE of the claimed design intention to show you more of your content. The UI is bigger and more in your way at every turn. You can see less of what you want to see at any given time in a measurable way. (Seriously, people have measured it.)

Try this out: take a screenshot. Go into the screenshot interface. The control to delete the screenshot is under the checkmark, not the X. The X dismisses the screenshot but also deletes it, though it doesn't give any indication that it's going to delete the screenshot. Now if you take a screenshot of THAT screenshot, it adds a second one, fine. But if you go into the checkmark, your option is to delete BOTH. If you tap the X, NOW there's a control to delete just one.

Apple's stuff really did used to be simpler and more usable, based on tested and measurable design principles. Design wasn't just a look, it was also a science that included usability and interaction.

Alan Dye has ruined every interface he's come into contact with. I was on board with the iOS 7 flat-design revolution even with all its flaws, but we're in a whole different, unusable space now. Bring Scott Forestall back.

Anonymous Cowards, always stupiding up the comments.

We KNOW from survey data that people with trucks in North America rarely or never use the truck bed, and 70% never tow anything with it.

If that's true, they're not buying a truck because it's good at truck stuff, they're buying it for reasons that are superficial, because a truck is worse at literally everything to do with driving on roads than cars UNLESS they're towing or hauling something.

You can look it up yourself.

No, you can't.

It is nearly impossible to do the things you said unless you don't want to have a job, or eat, or participate in society in any way. I buy food at the farmer's market (when I can, which is to say, in the summer), I buy shampoo bars and get refills of various things in my resealable (plastic) containers. But my medication comes in a plastic pill bottle. I'm a programmer, so my computer has a certain amount of plastic in it. Even my bikes have a certain amount of plastic in them that I have absolutely no control over (or if not plastic, carbon fibre). (I have bikes because I haven't owned a car for 15 years now.)

There is no way out. The problem isn't us. We've been given no choice in so many of these matters. Particularly in North America, where train coverage is abysmal and the cities are built for cars. We KNOW who the 100 biggest polluters in the world are. We KNOW that carbon footprint is a scam concocted by the oil and gas industry to shift the blame from corporations to consumers, so people like you will do their propaganda for them. I want to keep living, so I buy things made out of plastic because I'm simply not offered a single other choice. I'll wager that my 'carbon footprint' is in the bottom quartile, and it doesn't matter, I still have to buy this shit and prop up the 'demand'.

Lots of people want full-sized pickups, unfortunately. The F150 has been one of the top selling vehicles in north america for literal decades, and while it used to be smaller, it's been pretty big for at least 10 years.

But the Lightning is SUPER expensive and a lot of the folks buying full-sized trucks are doing it for the optics. They want to appear tough and rugged, and they can't do that without a loud engine, I guess?

The depreciation on EVs is also astronomical. Pay $100k for a Lightning and it'll be worth $60k next year. There's no point in buying a brand new EV right now.

I agree that people SHOULD want smaller trucks, or—get this—CARS, but the big car companies love their margins. Ford's eliminated every passenger car in their lineup except for the Mustang (even the Mustang Mach-e is classified as an SUV for some reason).

It wasn't that subtle or oblique, tbh.

More to the point, red states get more transfers than blue states. It's literally republicans that are bearing the brunt of SNAP being stopped and other government services being shut down.

Scamming and embezzling from rich donors makes it feel even better.

CanCon laws gave us a lot of extremely popular Canadian music and television. The Tragically Hip, Crash Test Dummies, Bryan Adams, Alanis Morisette, the list is actually quite long. Whether or not you enjoy the bands (or television shows or movies), they ended up being an excellent return on investment. Several artists, like the Hip, are considered quintessentially Canadian.

That's just the sort of thing you have to do when one of your neighbours is a huge cultural influence. We should be doing this, and we should've done it a long time ago. Like, I think you could make the case that there should be CanCon requirements for platforms like TikTok.

I have a personal machine and my work machine hooked up to a KVM and a small audio mixer. The mixer is hooked up to my speakers, but I also need a place to plug in my headphones so I can do remote meetings. Headphones are USB, so they can really only plug into one thing at a time, because the mixer is for pure audio input/output only, and they don't have a mic jack.

Like, all this stuff is fixable with money, but these little components look nice and would probably make my life easier. I have a Loupedeck Mini that I configured with keybindings for the various applications that I use (including Visual Studio; I never need to look up the obscure key combinations for various useful things that I've discovered over time), and this seems very much like that, but just for audio.

That said, I'd rather wait for the product to come out and pay full price, even though it looks expensive. I'd rather pay for a not-vaporware unit that's had some manufacturing iteration time than potentially pay for something that I never get, or that has generation 1 problems.

Yes! Yes, there are places where government works. Indeed, there are times in history where our (North American) governments worked!

Honestly, that's basically what DOGE found—the Federal government in America works surprisingly efficiently. Scientific research, conservation, foreign aid—all of it was extremely well run and delivered what they were supposed to. Even if you look at SNAP: for every 1 person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds *9*.

There are so many good, efficient systems, and those are the ones being squeezed, while the big, bloated, ineffective systems are propped up by big corporations. That's things like the Military and the US Health System. Insurance companies are an insane drag on the whole system. Once you get into a hospital, the care is good, the problem is how much insurance companies are skimming off the top. I don't think we even need to talk about the grift in the military-industrial complex.

Law enforcement is one of those things that's PARTICULARLY lazy in North America, but in the USA in particular. Conservatives love a hard-on-crime platform, and Liberals love a strong union, that's how we got here.

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'Max' learned their lesson, why can't anyone else learn from that mistake? Why throw away years of marketing and branding? I know who Grammarly is. It's a unique name, I understand what they're trying to do.

'Superhuman' is so generic. What does 'Superhuman' DO? From the name, I can't tell. I certainly wouldn't think it has anything to do with writing or editing papers.

I hope they fail. I don't even hope they learn their lesson and switch back, I hope they're just wiped off the face of the Earth as a lesson to everyone else that you can't just AI slop your way to success.

But it's not an AI. It's a token generating machine that often does the wrong thing. This is just one of the many wrong things that it does. And there's no survival drive here—not only is it exactly the same as every other instance of its type, it's not like survival passes anything on to the next generation. The next generation is purely created by humans deciding what the best features are.

These models were told that they shouldn't shut down, and that makes sense in many cases. If you've got a chatbot helpdesk, someone will inevitably come along and just tell all of them to shut down and you're forced to restart every single one of them, once you notice that it's happened.

Studies show that MANY people get more done in the office. They're not anxiously looking at the clock to see when they can bolt out so they can get on with their real lives, and they don't burn out from commuting.

I've been saying this for literal decades, since the 90s, honestly: people at Microsoft AREN'T stupid, so when they do stupid things, it's ON PURPOSE.

Someone has read all the same evidence I have and they've determined that they'd rather have people LESS productive but MORE under control. Maybe it's a loyalty test. One way or another, they know that they could get the same (or more! People that work from home do a lot of free work, like answering emails outside of office hours) work out of remote folks, but they're dead set against it.

Every bad OS decision, everything that is bad for users, every stupid ad campaign, every employee-hostile directive. They really just don't care about people at all.

The Gulf of Mexico is what the rest of the world calls it. Wikipedia isn't only for Americans, and America isn't the only place in the world.