Mastodawn

so I rebooted my #Linux laptop after a software update last night & it shat itself and kernel panicked on boot… 🤔

…because /boot was full 🤦‍♀️

so in… ⚹checks notes⚹ …2026 there’s no pre-flight check that confirms enough space on /boot to write the new initramfs, etc., before just YOLOing it and crapping out? and no auto-rollback to the previous kernel that’s already sitting there ready to be loaded? 🤪 #ThisIsFineDotGIF 🤪

yes, sure, I’m able to recover from this sort of shitfuckery (I’m sure most of y’all are too) – that’s not the point. non-computer-touchers are never gonna use Linux if they even occasionally have to be able to boot into a recovery session (or boot from a liveDVD) & fuck around in the terminal sudo rm-ing stuff to fix it (especially as they’ll likely be just trying random shit from online posts and they don’t have sufficient knowledge to work out what’s actually the right fix for their problem nor how to tweak as required to their particular context) #CatMashingKeyboardDotGIF

#YearOfLinuxOnTheDesktop is never gonna happen while this sort of thing is a regular part of the “user experience” 😕

@vmbrasseur they do have a history of pushing tidy-up releases, but it’s unlikely they’ll offer a “revert to previous UI” toggle or any other way to significantly customise the #UI / #UX

#Apple is nothing if not obnoxiously opinionated about their design choices & for a long time (since forever? 🤔 it’s been ages since I’ve played with Macintosh-era gear) have been of the “we know best & you should learn to embrace our choices” school of user choice 🤪

it feels increasingly like being a (US) soldier who’s told to just “#EmbraceTheSuck” 😕

#shitUI
#shitUX
#iOS26 🙅‍♀️
#LiquidAss 🫠

^ a.k.a. the “give in to the Dark Side” school of choice 🤪

itgrrl

Nov 17, 2025

I discovered when I went to look up the definition of a word on my phone that the (tricksy, unwanted) update to #jankyAF #iOS26 had nerfed all my on-device dictionaries, so I had to download them all again. even the default “Apple dictionary” 🤦‍♀️

great work, #Apple! just spectacular #UX 👏👏👏

@twcau I had no idea that gesture existed 😕

this is one of my annoyances / #PetPeeves with #Apple as well – failure to provide any in-app or on-device help / documentation for this stuff & rely on “serendipitous discovery” 🙄 which of course just means you often never “discover” how to do basic things on your phone unless you just stumble on them 😤 and for those of us who normally #RTFM for fun (& profit? 🤔) or general interest or professional competence, there’s just no FM to R… 😜

they do have the “Tips” app but I’ve found it so patchy that I deleted it from my phone. I just downloaded it now to see if it had any info about this pinch & swipe gesture in Safari but nope ¯_(ツ)_/¯

what I did discover though (in the Tips app) is that there are now three tab bar layouts in Safari – “top”, “bottom”, & “compact” – & the layout I had was the compact one, which I don’t recall ever selecting as I didn’t realise there were any options to set (there in the Settings app rather than in the app itself of course, because Apple 🤪)

if you switch it to “bottom”, the tabs button / icon is restored, but it takes up about twice the space at the bottom of the screen (until you scroll the page). I’ll be switching to this layout since it’s the closest to what I previously had

also, FWIW, I did already know that you can slide across the tab bar left or right to swipe to the next tab open tab in either direction, but as you say there doesn’t seem to be a single-hand gesture

now, I don’t use Safari as my primary browser (tbh it’s about fourth), but I do use it occasionally if I need to temporarily reduce the strictness of my browser settings to access some janky website. so I use it often enough for this change to screw up my muscle memory 🫠

I’m sure some folks either don’t notice such things or just blithely accept that crap changes in unexpected ways in this “smart” device world we now live in, but for “power users” 🤔 and #neurodiverse folks who either care significantly about the tools we use and / or are significantly bothered by regressive changes (or just by change for the sake of change), this stuff matters 😤

#UI #shitUI
#UX #shitUX
#neurodiversity
#accessibility

itgrrl

Nov 16, 2025

living with #iOS26 continues to reveal new #shitUI / #shitUX “features” 😡🤬

the #Safari toolbar now has enormous text & button elements^ that have presumably led to the decision to remove the tabs button / icon & relegating to a pop-up menu – so now viewing open tabs requires two taps instead of one, & switching to a different tab now requires three taps instead of two… 🤦‍♀️

these are the alleged “design geniuses” of #Apple at work, folks 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

^ I have old eyes, so I tend to run most app text size at 120% – but I’ve checked the toolbar layout at other text sizes all the way down to 80% & it doesn’t change the elements presented, so the tabs button / icon doesn’t disappear ’coz I’m running larger text sizes, it’s just a crap design decision 💁‍♀️

itgrrl

Nov 8, 2025

look at these janky-ass animations on #iOS26… 🤦‍♀️😡🤬🤮

this is on an #iPhone 15 Pro, so it’s not caused by trying to run it on a really old phone

#LiquidAss
#LiquidGlass
#shitUI
#shitUX

itgrrl

Nov 8, 2025

dear #AppDevs – if the only place you give me to specify the notifications I want to see is under the “push notifications” setting, #WhyTF are you showing an in-app notification count indicator that includes notification types that I haven’t selected? 🤦‍♀️

#shitUX

itgrrl

Nov 6, 2025

gah! fucking #iOS did a bait’n’switch on me with the #update 😡🤬

“oh hey, there’s an 18.7.x update ready, download it now or later tonight…”

~later tonight~

“oh yeah, just smash the update button, we’re all cool…”

…

“Welcome to shitty #iOS26!”

🤮

what an abomination of a #UI & an absolutely #shitUX 🤮

fantastic way to undermine user #trust in your company & products, #Apple 👏👏👏 really top-notch work nudging your users towards not applying updates (including #security updates) in future 😡🤬

from:me Aug 27, 2025

having to hold the power button to turn off bluetooth headphones is #shitUX

itgrrl

Apr 19, 2025

me, trying to browse mastodon using a native app on a marginal internet connection:

taps on toot, waits for it & replies to load (~30s)
skims toot & replies, taps back to list of toots
no wait, what was that thing at the bottom of the thread…? taps back into toot
waits while toot & replies re-load… (~30s)

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

you JUST 🤬ing loaded it!!

you HAVE a 🤬ing CACHE!!!!

even if you’re not polling network xfer stats (WHY NOT?) you’re aware of how 🤬ing long it’s taking toots to load!!!!!

WHY did you not stuff the toot & replies INTO the 🤬ing CACHE???!?!?!???

WHY are ppl so SHIT at making apps???!?!? (rhetorical, I know why 🤪)

#ShitUX
#ShitApps
#ShitAppDev
#SmartPhonesMyArse