Well, this is probably my final straw. I guess it's finally time to switch to waterfox. I can't remember the last time Mozilla pushed out an update to firefox with a single good feature.
I swear Mozilla must have fired all their QA staff to free up money to throw at AI slop, firefox has become easily the worst piece of software that I still use regularly.
God I miss when I actually liked software, or felt anything other than disgust or apathy towards this industry. Everything sucks now.
Because a single community is a greater whole? There's other things in the kernel that Android-focused developers work on, and forcing them to a fork raises the barrier to merge their work into the mainline.
I specifically prefer inverted controls in third person (tilting the stick up moves the camera up, so to point at the character it must then tilt the view down), but non-inverted controls in first person (tilting up points my view up).
I was initially thinking of upgrading to the 17 pro, I always appreciate better battery and the additional antenna bands could maybe help with the awful cell reception where I live, but buying a new iPhone would mean being forced to use iOS 26, and by extension liquid glass, which you could not pay me to do.
Have you tried it out, on an old phone for example? I've been trying it through the betas and I grew to hate it less than I expected. You might not, but it might be worth a try. Once again it's a shame that security updates and UI updates are inseparable. If you could do the security update without the feature update, I wouldn't even suggest you try it.
I actually think it's a shame that some of the most ridiculous levels of unreadable layering won't be seen by everyone. Most people will hate on something without ever having seen the full-fat, much worse version. Pulling the Control Centre down over the App Library was great (to giggle at in a beta on a backup phone, not on your main phone). There was also an entertainingly vibrant and dramatic distortion when pulling down the notification screen which has been toned way down. I can genuinely see why Apple thought it was cool, but common sense should have stepped in. Also, I think there's a good argument that UIs shouldn't be cool.
I won't upgrade to it quickly on my main phone but I wondered if I might be able to live with it, and there's a chance that the 26.1 might make it more useable.
I have some family members who updated this week so I have finally seen it in person (I don’t have any spare Apple devices to install beta software on), but I’ve also been watching videos of the various betas on YouTube over the past few months. For sure there have definitely been moments where I’ve seen like, an update in one of the betas where my reaction is “oh good they made that more readable than in the last beta” and then I looked at the same screen on my phone not on the beta and the consistency of the legibility is just night and day. Liquid glass can be presented in specific scenarios that look good, great even. It’s a very neat shader pack. Very “rule of cool”. Unfortunately, I prefer “rule of I can always read the words” and there are plenty of scenarios where liquid glass falls apart, even in the official non beta release.
I first realized that it might be a mess back at WWDC when they showed the apple TV ui, commenting on how the refractive glass “seamlessly blended into the content” or whatever all the while, in their own highly produced advertisement, I couldn’t help but find that the refractions were noticeably distracting. I couldn’t focus on anything else.
It feels like the UX equivalent of watching a Mr beast video, just maximum stimulation all the time. Maybe that’s their strategy for appealing to a new generation of smartphone users (</joking>).
It's incredibly obvious. I'm not doubting the actual information here, it's clearly thorough and well researched. The issue is that I cannot _stand_ the hyper-homogenized cadence and style that all LLMs use. It's "Corporate Memphis" all over again. I don't understand why everyone is so violently afraid of something looking like a human being made it?
Because not everyone speaks English so good that they could write an article, or want to invest a massive amount of time only to get a barely readable result. For example...
Oh my god, I thought you were exaggerating at least a little.
The “static preview” it shows while it loads (for like 10-15 seconds!) is so much smoother and nicer to scroll around than the actual thing. On mobile, every third scroll attempt actually opens the right click context menu. It’s a stuttering mess on my high refresh rate phone. Nobody should ever make websites like this.
I think at this point I should just bite the bullet and switch to waterfox. I’m tired of every single update coming with even more things to disable in about:config.
I'm fine paying for search, but I don't want to use LLMs and therefore I don't want to _pay_ for access to LLMs that I'm not going to use. If Kagi offered a lower cost subscription with zero LLM bullshit then I would happily resubscribe. I'm not holding my breath though, being able to actually find information on the internet is just probably dead forever.
That's kind of the nature of any subscription that isn't pay-per-use for every action... you're always going to be paying for various things that you don't use/consume.
YouTube premium recently added a “lite” tier. I don’t use YouTube music and I don’t watch shorts or music videos on YouTube, so I’m able to have the channels I watch get compensated without paying for what I perceive as unnecessary and non-core features of the platform.
Clearly such a thing is possible, and a company which insists it isn’t is fundamentally either uncreative or user hostile.
Maybe I perceive monetized videos on YouTube as an unnecessary and non-core feature - I'd like a tier where I only have access to non-monetized videos, but get the other perks of membership (background playback, etc.)
So what is it about subscription that makes this impossible? There are other factors that favor dumbed down user interfaces, but they are not unique to subscriptions
> So what is it about subscription that makes this impossible?
Just the nature of it? A subscription is always going to be a regular fee that pays for an aggregate of multiple things, some of which aren’t used by every subscriber. (And which some subscribers are going to object to paying for.) The only way to ensure that you only pay for what you use is a pay-per-use model.
And conceptually I really like pay-per-use models, but the public tends not to love them - in particular for things with low marginal costs of production/serving, like software services. (As opposed to medium marginal-cost goods, like say, home gas utility, where non-usage-based pricing is available, but tends to be poor value.)
I'm building my own search engine that is human-curated, as I am also uncomfortable relying on AI to filter my search results. It's free, feedback welcomed: https://greppr.org/
Thats realy cool, and i would be interested in building something like this for myself (for German sources) do you have any directions to point me into for making something like this myself?
Phoenix LiveView also solves this. One request sends a lightweight event message over web socket, and the web server responds with only the new html (or the new content to insert into specific places in the template).
I swear Mozilla must have fired all their QA staff to free up money to throw at AI slop, firefox has become easily the worst piece of software that I still use regularly.
God I miss when I actually liked software, or felt anything other than disgust or apathy towards this industry. Everything sucks now.