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@Supremus@mastodon.world can you point to specific things you hate? i'm on OS 26 on everything except my M1 MBA, and i'm not upgrading based on gut feeling. would be nice to have actual reasons from someone that knows

last weekend, I replaced two aging 4ft. fluorescent light fixtures in my basement with LEDs. It's as bright as the sun down there now. Also, now that I can see, the basement is like super dirty

Haven't worn contact lenses in about 20 years. Just got a supply of daily disposables, popped them right in. I can see!

A co-worker yesterday whipped out their brand new cosmic orange #iphone17pro and I'm surprised at how quickly I got the tech lust. I walked to the Apple Store at Carnegie library in DC and bought a blue one. Coming from a 14 pro, it's kind of bonkers how improved so many things are. Now I need to replace all my lightning cables and rethink my cable organizer and get a USB-C cable for the car and, and, and, and. Ah well.

@Annschschsch Foureo

#watchos26, basically they effed up. there is no place for the visual gimmick of liquid glass on this screen. stop it. turn that crap off. the main thing i like about it so far is that the weather complication finally works instead of saying "--" all the time.

#ipados26, however... liquid glass aside, the menu bar, windowing, multitasking! this is the best thing to happen to an ipad in many years. it's infinitely more capable, useable, and comfortable now. They didn't need liquid glass to make this happen, though. just sayin

#liquidglass on #ios26 is sort of mostly OK, with a handful of glaring problems. They will get fixed. But I seriously do not understand folks that are fawning over this thing like it's the best thing since sliced bread. The more I use it, the more it feels like a college kid said "I have an idea!" and no one stopped them. Design features for the sake of it, instead of bringing the considerable resources of #apple to bear on actually making useful new features.