Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug)
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Paul Jewell@bbatsov I stopped using Apple stuff about 5 years ago. However, my wife is still all in. She has glass on her iPhone 15, and doesn't like it. She hasn't had any issues as such, but doesn't see the point of the changes. Her iPad Pro is up to date (iOS 18?), but I didn't let it upgrade to iOS26 (?), so no glass there yet. In case you haven't already guessed, I do her tech support! Challenge for the next 10 months - get her off W11 on her laptop, and onto Linux...
BTW: Happy Christmas, and thanks for your software contributions to Open Source!
BTW: Happy Christmas, and thanks for your software contributions to Open Source!
Simon Stemplinger@bbatsov everything’s slightly worse and annoying on iOS. Still holding out on macOS myself
bitterseeds@bbatsov It’s working fine for me. I’ve seen a few UI glitches but over all nothing horrible to write home about. I think 26 is great on my iPad, it’s closer to Mac OS than my 2017 iPad was. I think it’s a case of one either likes it or hates it, no real middle ground.
Philip Theus@bbatsov it‘s worse than before, but usable.
I have activated „increased contrast“ in the accessibility settings which helps.
Randy Ridenour@bbatsov No problems with it for me. I find it neither great nor terrible — just different.
Paul Hoffer@bbatsov first thing to do is “Reduce Transparency” in accessibility settings. It’s still bad but not unusable
zefu@bbatsov went the other way and did a fresh install of Sonoma, hoping for less Siri Biome and other deamons I don't need nor want. Used https://forum.renoise.com/t/macos-12-13-14-15-system-daemon-minimization/68972 to disable lots of them.
Back when I was running Sonoma I wasn't aware yet of all the nasties Apple has added to their OS over time; I disabled Siri from the Settings App and went about my business. Turned out that there were a bunch of other Siri daemons still running, along with many others. More like Sodoma, than Sonoma.
Back when I was running Sonoma I wasn't aware yet of all the nasties Apple has added to their OS over time; I disabled Siri from the Settings App and went about my business. Turned out that there were a bunch of other Siri daemons still running, along with many others. More like Sodoma, than Sonoma.
Macos 12/13/14/15 system daemon minimization
UPDATED for Sequoia 15.3.2 and Sonoma 14.5, see last posts This is not a new trick, but I just realized that this modification is reboot-resistant, easily removable and does not require to alter the read-only system partition: Works on macos 12, too. For example, if you don’t want to use icloud at all, you can disable most of its services, except apple bird. Also heavily reduces write access to the internal SSD, and therefore increases lifetime (apple ssds are usually produced by the usual su...