Goodness those pop-up menu animations are the worst. And no way to disable them (reduce motion doesn’t affect them). Meaningless, gratuitous skeuomorphism that fails at even the basics of modeling the physical integrity of its source material.
What a shit show.
Liquid Ass should be a cautionary case study in Interface Design 101.
*smdh*
@aral absolute useless desigbtha tools a while to update and reset all privacy settings such as asking Siri not to applied on apps
@aral
Io non lo faccio, non lo faccio no
Apple cares so much about accessibility that they are now baking accessibility needs into their interfaces just so you can experience their accessibility features.
If you’ve been tricked into updating to iOS 26 also (because, really, what numbskull in their right mind would subject themselves willingly to that Shakespearian clusterfuck?), the reduce transparency and reduce motion accessibility settings are your friend.
Sure, your phone will look and feel worse than before but that’s a small price to pay for progess, amirite? Now stop your bitching before Apple sets ICE on you or something.
@aral All I can think of about this atrocity is that Alan Dye is no longer in charge and hoping his replacement will have the power to revisit the many questionable choices of his predecessor.
Nah, fuck it, turned everything back on again. Why should I fix your damn broken interface and fool myself into thinking this piece of shit is anything but? Going to experience iOS 26 in all its enshittified glory. Will make it easier to hate this phone and move onto something more ethical once it finally croaks.
Apple is likely one release cycle away from going full Microsoft/Google anyway.
macOS 27 Liquid Glass updates leaked.
Shades of Kai’s Power Tools!
As I loved Kai’s wacko interfaces back in the mid nineties, I actually don’t mind Liquid Glass at all. These devices have more compute power than I need anyway 😄
@aral Finally an improvement
This one weird trick will make you love Liquid Glass.
This is me, unable to send the previous post on @MonaApp on iOS 26 because the keyboard is covering the send button.
(The workaround, as I’ll soon be employing for this post also, is to go to close the post, tap outside it to close the pop-up confirmation dialogue, and then use the send button, which becomes accessible again.)
🤦♂️
@johnlogic CW: Daft interface design.
@aral 🤣 Winamp was way ahead....
@aral Aral j'ai besoin d'aide.
@aral The biggest dick move with this whole liquid ass clusterfuck is, that for a very brief time window one could install 18.7.3 on iPhone 11, and later. And then Apple pulled it. “Oh no! Almost everyone prefers the security only update over our nightmarish Windows Vista clone!”
@schrotthaufen Wait, you can’t even wipe it and go back to 18? 🤬
@aral I didn’t try that, tbh. Maybe you can wipe and go back to 18.7.2, but .3 isn’t on the table for any device that can run iOS26.
@aral curious as to what you’ll choose. The fairphone is the obvious candidate, but then you’re saddled with Android, which has different but equally annoying ethical and usability limitations. Or am I missing something?
@doc Not choosing anything yet. I have a drawerful of older Linux phones that I can’t use for any meaningful day-to-day tasks (banking, paying for stuff, etc.) I’m not made of money + very conscious about contributing to landfill. Will wait until this phone croaks. Then I might look at the new Jolla phone maybe.
@aral In a similar note..
I have a mid 2012Macbook pro, running OS Catalina.... 2 x 1Tb SSDs, 16Gb ram....probably the last decent OS IMO.
Use mostly 3rd party apps for better functionality...
My partner has 2 ( 1 work, 1 personal ) M2 MB pros, latest OS.. Can't bide them
Goodness those pop-up menu animations are the worst. And no way to disable them (reduce motion doesn’t affect them). Meaningless, gratuitous skeuomorphism that fails at even the basics of modeling the physical integrity of its source material.
What a shit show.
Liquid Ass should be a cautionary case study in Interface Design 101.
*smdh*
@aral
Funny how it's not even about exclusive apps anymore. Or the price tag, you name it when it comes to equivalent hardware compared to Android phones.
It's now "even what Apple used to do right, is no more".
Liquid Ass: Because you’ve always wanted to see your face morph into a back button™
@aral about 15 years ago I started buying the cheapest new phones with the best battery life, and bought myself a DSLR. I run my phones into the ground, my DSLR is still taking awesome photos.
I've never looked back
And it bleeds your battery like a vampire if you have transparent icons.
