Daily Archives: 2025-10-02

Article note: iOS really is fucking ghastly if you aren't used to it. I don't own an iOS device but regularly try to help other people with them, and Apple seem to have done their absolute best to make nothing discoverable. Did I just make a gesture by how I was holding the device? What did it do? Can that feature only be accessed by a gesture? Can I long press this control for more options? What's tied to the effectively-mandatory vendor account? Why is it auto-completing wrong passwords from the integrated password manager and how do I change them? What the hell information did it autofill on this site/service when I "Signed in with apple?" How do I do "back" in this app, the method I used in the other app doesn't seem to apply? ...

Article note: Oh look, a timely example of why notarization / any flavor of blocking user installation of apps not specifically approved by the vendor like Apple has been doing and Google is barreling towards is unacceptable. If the vendor (and hence any entity that can leverage the vendor) can control what you do with a device, it isn't yours, and it isn't a viable platform to participate in society from since the mechanism is now literally being used to control political speech.

Article note: ...Yeah. If you're going to run an unsupported OS, you might as well run a good one. It really is a hilarious degree of validation for the claims (that I wholly agree with) that Windows has been getting steadily worse since 7 in almost every meaningful user-facing way.