Safari is still a garbage tier browser - simple back and forward navigation doesn't work on websites I use daily - and this extends to webkit-based Orion.

But at least they don't drain my (Apple Silicon) laptop battery by 2% or more overnight the way every chromium-based browser does. Including Helium which I had high hopes for after discovering it yesterday.

The search for a properly good browser seems like it will never end. I think Zen will be my shelter, until it loses all my tabs again.

The enshittification of browsers continues.

Opera just lost all my tabs after an update; no sign of them in recently closed. Lucky it wasn’t my main browser. Now it’s in the trash for good.

Back to Orion, I guess. Maybe they’ve fixed the performance bug that drained my battery overnight.

Spent the evening swearing at the new default network manager in Debian 13. In a proxmox LXC it fails to detect when the network is connected after boot (the host boots faster than the network switch).

And anyway, why on earth would you take such a nice lightweight OS and run a permanent 25mb resident python script to handle the networking 🫠

I’ve rebuilt two of my tiny services on an alpine base, the rest I’ll either have to swap manually or switch them to Ubuntu.

What kind of app running on macOS doesn't support cmd+w to close the window?

An Apple app, of course. System settings got itself wedged into some sort of broken state as usual.

In preparation for the Apple '26 releases I'm turning off auto update on my iPhone and mac.

I have been an early adopter for 20+ years but I am entirely uninterested in such a poorly designed interface.

I wanted to like the Zen browser, despite the Firefox base, but in a sea of a thousand paper cuts it just forgot my pinned tab order. And then crashed, forgetting all my tabs. Probably a bug in the latest release.

Arc may be a dead-end browser (and I would prefer to avoid chromium) but they were so far ahead that 6 months later nothing else can replace it. Maybe I'll try again next year.

I want to love the Orion browser, but it's a pity webkit is still not stable enough. It's probably some silly app or config on my machine; Orion has the same problem as Safari where occasionally when I click on something in a webpage it just goes blank. A reload brings everything back.

It doesn't happen often enough to make the browser unusable, but these random moments of extreme frustration make it difficult to get off Chromium-based browsers as my default.

Sometimes I think I might use Apple Mail again, such as with the new summarise feature and (on ios anyway) the nice category system.

Then I re-experience just how bad the draft message experience is when using gmail and I throw it back in the trash. A shame they don't have more incentive to do better with that account type.