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I am usually a day-1 upgrader for Apple OSes. My reasoning being that I'm not really in a consensual relationship with this company where I get to have real choices; upgrading sooner means I can get the benefits of the new release faster and adapt to the new indignities sooner. I gotta say […]

I have at least one friend that has worked on this stuff at least peripherally (maybe more, given the way the company works) and I know that people who care a lot and want the right thing for users are involved in making it but still, nothing can contain the malevolent energies inside these […]

So I dunno. I'll probably upgrade. But I'm the least happy about it that I've been in a *very* long time

There are a _lot_ of nice new features. And the corner radii are now consistently sized instead of what I might describe as "insanity themed". But there are still gross little details like Shortcuts has a list/detail view where the detail view is a (very slow) LLM summary of the shortcut with a […]

I guess the little "create a calendar event" text field is doing some LLM shit now, which… sigh, fine, I guess. If it's actually using a local language model to parse language there's a ceiling on how mad I'm going to get. I am deeply annoyed that I'm not *sure* that it's not going out to the […]

Well, it broke Emacs, which is pretty bad. Luckily noping back out to https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus to get a source build seems to have fixed it well enough.

@glyph I just went looking based on this, and … why are the options about Siri features in the Screen Time settings and not in the Siri section? The mind boggles.

@glyph is there a good reference page somewhere of how to do all that? I’m hesitating to upgrade because I like being on the on version with a hard “ai off switch”, but I know that can’t last forever

@amethyst uh I boosted something yesterday one sec