It used to be so easy to report a bug on OS X. The issue tracker was not a terrible design and I filed a bunch of bugs. Developers usually followed up and most ended up being fixed. Quite a few, annoyingly, were closed as duplicates of other bugs I didn’t have access to, but at least that gave them a signal that multiple people saw the same bug.

The last time I tried to file a macOS bug was painful. It required uploading a load of irrelevant things (you don’t need dumps of my system state for a bug that can be reproduced on a clean install). It also now comes with a privacy policy that I am totally unwilling to agree to.

The rate at which I’ve found bugs in Apple products has increased in recent years (and a lot that I found years ago remain unfixed) but the number I have reported recently is zero.

I don’t expect Apple to change, but hopefully other people can learn this lesson. If you break the feedback channel from your users, your product quality will deteriorate.

#Apple #macOS

I‘d like to ask software history questions to someone who was involved in either the #A/UX or #MAE or BlueBox/Classic projects at #Apple 😊 I have a theory about 1990’s Apple software I‘d like to have confirmed or corrected.

When the #iPhone #iOS starts to play notifications really loud when you’re away, it’s because #Apple forgets that we are intelligent species, for most of us.

It would be nice if they stopped implementing bloody stupid intelligent shit.

To disable this annoying bug feature read: Turn Attention Aware features on or off on your iPhone or iPad Pro

@gsuberland My teen had a M1 Macbook Air die-- the motherboard. All the data was lost along with it although the SSD was probably fine.

Apple made the choice to solder the SSD to the motherboard, preventing the data from being saved at a reasonable cost in a situation like this.

We did not replace that device with another #Apple

⚖️ Gjovik v Apple update: It now appears that #Apple deleted its own key defense #evidence in my case, and further, has been lying about it for at least three years. Read my motion to compel production and/or request for #sanctions due to evidence spoliation: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.417952/gov.uscourts.cand.417952.240.0.pdf

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Rotten Apple: Dozens of Former Israeli Spies Hired by Silicon Valley Giant

｢ Under Cook’s leadership, Apple employees have been disciplined or even fired for wearing pins, bracelets, or keffiyehs in support of the Palestinian people. Nevertheless, groups such as Apples4Ceasefire continue to speak out about what they describe as Apple’s complicity in genocide ｣

https://www.mintpressnews.com/apple-israel-unit-8200-hiring/290226/

#apple #genocide #israel

New #blog post: What I Do and Don't Miss About MacOS

https://rldane.space/what-i-do-and-dont-miss-about-macos.html

1853 words

Part rosy-tinted retromemories, part acerbic political polemic, 99% UI kvetching.

Absolutely go eat a bushelful of eggplants, Tim Cook. And by eggplants, of course I don't mean the vegetable.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#100DaysToOffload #49

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Apple #Macintosh #RetroComputing #USPOL

Je trainais mes #apple depuis le rachat de la boite par la boite zombie. Bon avec Tim Cook c'est plus possible. Je reviens à #linux (linux de 95 à 2021 hein ok me brisez pas les croustillons). Quel laptop vous conseillez ? Lésinez pas ! merci !

My second Nomad wallet card with built-in Find My (warranty replacement) has the same buggy problem as the first.

It often warns me it’s been left behind when I leave home and it’s in my pocket, or I’ve been in a place for a while, like a restaurant, then start moving.

Could this be a Nomad bug/problem? A problem with third-party Find My gadgets? I doubt it’s the #iOS26 beta because this has happened across iOS 17 and 18.

#Apple #iOS

bwfm patches in #OpenBSD 7.7-current will bring better WiFi handling on M1/M2 #Apple Silicon (and likely older intel Macs, too): https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=175438802707232&w=2
#broadcom #runbsd

What's so pathetic about this redesign of the #macOS drive icons from #Apple isn't that it ditches #Skeuomorphism, it's that it hangs on to skeuomorphism by trying to show a non-euclidian geometry vision of the face of a desktop drive.

Apple lacks the #Courage to go full geometric primitive and make icons that are pure metaphor. Given they're cargo-culting their own graphical history in so many decorative ways, they could have made uncompomised high-fidelity takes on the pre-Aqua icons.

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A comparison between old, and new Mac OS icons for hard drives, and network shares.

#Apple Is Selling iPad Repair Parts for Astronomical Prices https://www.404media.co/apple-is-selling-ipad-repair-parts-for-astronomical-prices/ #RightToRepair

@gruber Apple’s design ethos has gone from “elegantly intuitive” to “Where’s Waldo?”
#Apple

Ok

Apparently the only way to be able to use apps with any kind of window mode in #iPadOS26 is to enable Stage Manager. I’ve never liked Stage Manager, the previous iteration was a giant waste of screen space. But fine.

So what is going on here? Why does Ivory hang off to the side when I minimize Inoreader? Why doesn’t it reappear when I switch to a different full-screen app? What on earth is the point of the Home Screen disappearing when I click it and Ivory slides back in?

#Apple #iPadOS

I am honestly trying to understand how this is supposed to work. Because right now it seems like a bunch of pre-junior vibe coders walked into the iPad wing and poured a bunch of Everclear on the iPadOS source code and called it a day.

How is this in any way shape or form useful.

(Also ignore the apps on my Home Screen. I’m rearranging things)

#iPadOS26 #Apple #iPadOS

Look at how perfect Split View and Slide Over were here in the previous iPadOS. **Look at it**

You cannot tell me that anyone who actually understood the strengths of the iPad and a touchscreen OS said “yep, let’s throw this out for 30-year-old clunky, fiddly, tedious Mac windowing conventions and tools because they’re better. People will *love* trying to tap microscopic stoplight buttons.”

You just can’t. Because you would objectively be lying and so are they.

#Apple #iPadOS #iPadOS26

Intel kam, Intel ging. Unix bleibt.

#neuland #apple #arm #intel #unix #forever

I really wish Apple would stop breaking things.

Latest Command Line Tools breaks yacc, m4, etc.

When you accept the installer it prints a completely bogus estimation time.

Then when it finishes, yacc, m4, etc, are still missing and you go around the cycle again.

This really isn't difficult Apple. With a market cap of over 2.5 trillion dollars, I'm pretty sure you can afford to employ a single #pkgsrc developer. They would find these bugs within minutes before release.

#Apple #macOS

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Screenshot of Command Line Tools installer displaying "Downloading software. About 40 hours, 21 minutes remaining."

So I guess US users hit the tracking jackpot then.

"A 'visited places' service that tracks and records where users have been won’t be rolled out in the EU."

9to5Mac: Apple confirms iOS 26 in the EU will be missing some features https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/30/apple-confirms-ios-26-in-the-eu-will-be-missing-some-features/ @9to5Mac #Apple #privacy #iOS26

Has anyone else had to reset FaceID on their iPhone in the past few days? I have two anecdotes of this happening, looking for a pattern.

#Apple #iPhone #FaceID

🍏 My Mac Contacted 63 Different Apple Owned Domains in One Hour - While Not in Use

https://appaddict.app/post/my-mac-contacted-63-different-apple-owned-domains-in-one-hour-while-not-is-use

#apple #privacy #tracking