Mobile Safari is doing this thing where if you scroll a website it will decide you don’t want to scroll the website your scrolling but that you want to open another website. Took me a while to catch this text at the bottom.

In typical Apple fashion this weird niche feature is automatically turned on.

How can this be turned off?!

One of two bonded DSL lines is totally dead. But Brightspeed has been in a nearly constant state of “area outage” for 5 months. “Area outage” clears any scheduled repair appointments and prevents making them.

So even though I’ve been able to set up a new repair appointment every 2-3 weeks when the “area outages” are cleared, so far a new “area outage” cancels the appontments before they occur.

This is beginning to feel like a feature.

My least favorite change in iOS26 is the Personal Hotspot. Its existence is now conditioned on there being a cellular data connection to share.

If the connection drops the hotspot tether drops and the app greys out. So you can’t just tether a device and use the data as it’s available in areas without constant connection - every drop out causes the Hotspot app to go away. Every return of data requires a fresh tether.

Local schools are using educational software by MobiMax who then sells ads they call “school sponsorships.”

And this is the second for-profit company that’s contracted with local public schools for fundraising. None of this seems to be regulated.

I wish schools would just go back to asking for gift cards so we know 100% of the value goes to the schools.