Daring Fireball1d ago
★ What to Do About Those Menu Item Icons in MacOS 26 Tahoe
https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/what_to_do_about_those_menu_item_icons_in_macos_26_tahoe
What to Do About Those Menu Item Icons in MacOS 26 Tahoe

If this worked to hide *all* of these cursed little turds smeared across the menu bar items of Apple’s system apps in Tahoe, this hidden preference would be a proverbial pitcher of ice water in hell. As it stands, alas, it’s more like half a glass of tepid water.

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Show threadGeoff Beier1d ago

@daringfireball I've been using Mac OS on one computer or another since 1991 or so. For the majority of that time, I've been using it on my main, most used computer. There's one exception: from 2018 - 2022, I used a laptop with Linux on it because I was unhappy with Apple's laptop hardware. In 2022, when I needed to build iPhone things more frequently, the Apple Silicon MBP brought me happily back.

Now, I don't need to build iPhone things that frequently. I could do that from a Mac Mini. And Apple's **software** has me thinking about going back to Linux on my main laptop. I didn't have Apple's software pushing me off the Mac on my 2026 bingo card. Or any year's bingo card, really. But their recent work has me looking at KDE and thinking "maybe that'd suit me better."

Show threadalwillis
@petard I think Apple will do a mea culpa for their recent lapses in software quality at WWDC, then fix the issues in macOS 27: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-returns-the-week-of-june-8/
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference returns the week of June 8

Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) online from June 8-12.

Apple Newsroom
Mar 24 at 10:26pmMona for Mac
Show threadGeoff Beier2h ago

@alwillis I'm mildly optimistic about that. And I won't need to decide, really, unless my current M1 MBP 14" (released in '21, but purchased new by me in '22) prematurely shuffles off this mortal coil.

I'm hoping they do, because while I like Linux software lately, picking Linux hardware is absolutely no picnic.