Post B2NIsdfyCfSn746M52 by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #B2N9GNLBad6DrI3lEu by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T09:58:45Z
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Warning: kissing fascist ass may result in liquid glass. So my phone tricked me into updating to iOS 26 (nice one, asshats). And wow: it really is a case study in form over function. Gratuitous, meaningless aesthetics and motion. Decoration, not design. “Look what I can do!”Oh well, if it gets me using my phone less, that’s a good thing, I guess.But the next time you hear someone from Apple talking about design, please feel free to laugh in their damn faces. What a sad joke they’ve become.#apple #ios26 #liquidAss #design #decoration #BigTech #fascism #aesthetics
(DIR) Post #B2N9ZavBK0Z1Tp3pCK by noondlyt@hellions.cloud
2026-01-17T10:01:28Z
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@aral And it bleeds your battery like a vampire if you have transparent icons.
(DIR) Post #B2N9vHWC8skhfoiMU4 by sortius@infosec.exchange
2026-01-17T10:06:07Z
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@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
(DIR) Post #B2NAA1YFmxTwUshuaW by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T10:08:52Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #B2NBfkh26SIbQsVTXc by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T10:25:44Z
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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*#ios26 #accessibility #design #decoration
(DIR) Post #B2NBqkN5dhZxcWQB8q by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T10:27:45Z
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Liquid Ass: Because you’ve always wanted to see your face morph into a back button™
(DIR) Post #B2NDY6w1iyj20R0JSy by PacoVelobs@mamot.fr
2026-01-17T10:46:50Z
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@aralFunny 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".
(DIR) Post #B2NDoT9Ysw3LY38RLE by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T10:49:40Z
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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.#ios26 #BigTech #apple #theAestheticsOfBurgeoningFascism
(DIR) Post #B2NF7FARCyQ5d03qzY by Reddog@syzito.xyz
2026-01-17T11:04:17Z
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@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
(DIR) Post #B2NFZNnOinq2UrhaqW by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2026-01-17T11:10:03.591563Z
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@aral >His phone.>It updates and becomes even more useless and he can't go back and it's meant to be his.
(DIR) Post #B2NH4IRykIn4qizKmu by doc@mastodon.social
2026-01-17T11:26:08Z
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@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?
(DIR) Post #B2NII0XGFW6nIPYpiC by schrotthaufen@mastodon.social
2026-01-17T11:39:55Z
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@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!”
(DIR) Post #B2NINiGV5h2gMwRRjc by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T11:40:07Z
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macOS 27 Liquid Glass updates leaked.#apple #LiquidGlass
(DIR) Post #B2NIVaJYXFRo1jcmFU by Gardenia@piaille.fr
2026-01-17T11:41:12Z
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@aral Aral j'ai besoin d'aide.
(DIR) Post #B2NIZqvchslIiFSuEi by nemo@mas.to
2026-01-17T11:41:23Z
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@aral xD
(DIR) Post #B2NIeVYDcCl7rLjnNY by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T11:41:34Z
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@schrotthaufen Wait, you can’t even wipe it and go back to 18? 🤬
(DIR) Post #B2NIjGz1CmTq7tXrbk by andre123@snowfan.it
2026-01-17T11:42:30Z
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@aral 🤣 Winamp was way ahead....
(DIR) Post #B2NIsdfyCfSn746M52 by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2026-01-17T11:45:50Z
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@aral 😂
(DIR) Post #B2NJ1jiz5GzeTjqj56 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T11:48:10Z
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This one weird trick will make you love Liquid Glass.#apple #LiquidGlass
(DIR) Post #B2NJF9o3QLPP8OcWUi by johnlogic@sfba.social
2026-01-17T11:50:34Z
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@aral CW please
(DIR) Post #B2NJJzWN5jWEgQedaC by shalf@mamot.fr
2026-01-17T11:50:45Z
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@aral Brutal 😂🫶🏻
(DIR) Post #B2NJOhaNCcDmVOlxMO by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T11:52:17Z
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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.)🤦♂️#ios26 #LiquidAss
(DIR) Post #B2NJTNgmbZf4FG0Ac4 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T11:52:47Z
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@johnlogic CW: Daft interface design.
(DIR) Post #B2NJlo2vLfvdCd8yfo by metin@graphics.social
2026-01-17T11:56:18Z
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@aral Also, you've apparently been cancelled by Apple. 😉
(DIR) Post #B2NJquu1HgA5uoPqIy by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T11:57:20Z
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@metin 🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #B2NKGJd8U5UfqXd69Y by fx@chaos.social
2026-01-17T12:01:56Z
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@aral Finally an improvement
(DIR) Post #B2NKVOu99lf4Y3mNyi by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T12:04:19Z
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@fx Indeed :)
(DIR) Post #B2NLQdcp69Yei3yACW by eruwero@ieji.de
2026-01-17T12:15:02Z
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@aral @MonaApp love it, there must be some real geniuses at work at apple. Steve Jobs would be proud.
(DIR) Post #B2NLVFseo89yVzZqaW by erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social
2026-01-17T12:15:50Z
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@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.
(DIR) Post #B2NLaeGHaRVzZzCQme by greenWhale@dice.camp
2026-01-17T12:16:32Z
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@aral oh djeez. 🙄 @MonaApp
(DIR) Post #B2NLnyEOeSnjHKfaWO by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17T12:17:28Z
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@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.
(DIR) Post #B2NM6ZS50Lq3vewIQS by schrotthaufen@mastodon.social
2026-01-17T12:22:38Z
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@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.
(DIR) Post #B2NNJZirPSD6UGYMAC by f4grx@chaos.social
2026-01-17T12:35:31Z
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@aral @MonaApp it's you!
(DIR) Post #B2NWCMki8JQdoz3WcK by airwhale@beige.party
2026-01-17T14:15:40Z
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@aral 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 😄
(DIR) Post #B2Na77czL1IBHYCNgO by caitp@mstdn.social
2026-01-17T14:59:32Z
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@aral @crispius i have to stab my good taste receptors? but I need those
(DIR) Post #B2NtOpgofXTnzO9E1o by clarinette@mastodon.online
2026-01-17T18:35:30Z
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@aral absolute useless desigbtha tools a while to update and reset all privacy settings such as asking Siri not to applied on apps
(DIR) Post #B2P4PRv7oyFDDJIUJk by MonaApp@mastodon.social
2026-01-18T08:13:49Z
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@aral Hi, this looks like a random iOS keyboard issue. Tapping the close button removes the keyboard, which helps reset faulty data.
(DIR) Post #B2QtP0EpkqEJupZQmW by ChasMusic@ohai.social
2026-01-19T03:45:22Z
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@aral Actually, for better or for worse, menu animations are a separate setting: Prefer cross-fade transitions. Right below the Reduce Motion setting.And that said, while looking that up, I just got zapped by something else that ignores Reduce Motion and I don't even know how I did it so that I can report it.#ios26