I am a big fan of using it when working with somewhat complicated toolchains, especially if they need to be compiled. Cleaning up the file system is as simple as deleting the container and starting a new one. OCaml on windows comes to mind.
Many commentors point out that CR's guideline for daily intake is arbitrary and well under the FDA guideline. I think it would be good to take this with a grain of salt and will be interested to see the response from Huel.
There is no good level for lead exposure. It is always bad. If anything, I think the FDA should make their limits more strict. Yet the FDA is slow moving and susceptible to a lot of industry influence that wants no regulation.
I think we can all agree on that, but it still seems like CR's article is a bit reactionary considering it is normal to find some levels of lead in most FDA regulated foodstuffs?
Plant-based products still have non-zero contamination because lead is still allowed in things like avgas, so we keep putting more in the environment. In theory, leaded avgas is finally starting to get phased out but this has been an excruciatingly slow process.
The good news is that if and when we eliminate lead totally from its remaining uses, we won't have to wait too long to see the benefits. IIRC people's blood lead levels started dropping pretty quickly after we phased out leaded gasoline.
How are we going to remove all the existing contamination? Soil lead levels in old residential areas are still high from when leaded gas was in use. To the point where people with chickens or vegetable gardens at home need to be testing for lead.
Are you really trying to suggest that consumer reports, the most trustworthy consumer advocate of all time is setting unreasonable safety standards?
The FDA is known to set acceptable levels too high especially for lead. The scientific consensus is clear, there is no amount of lead that is safe. If you’re regularly consuming products that contain lead you should stop immediately. If this suggestion makes you frustrated, angry or otherwise disturbed, perhaps you’re experiencing symptoms of lead exposure.
As I said in an above comment, nobody with sense is going to claim lead is healthy. I’m just saying CR could just as easily come up with the same findings for other foodstuffs. Obviously change needs to happen but this doesn’t seem like it will do any good.
I think there are a few nice changes in 26, but they’re small things.
They are certainly overwhelmed by the problems caused by the terrible visual design, which does not accomplish its stated goals and usually is a very large setback compared to what we had previously.
Yeah it grew on me over the beta phase, now when I hold an iPhone not updated it feels old and I really don’t like previous versions.
Regardless of places where it’s not ideal implementations yet, I can’t see myself coming back to the previous style. Liquid Glass will get better and I really like it. I got wow moments sometimes when it shines on some occasions
I think the idea of a new design of some sort was a good one. We’ve been in the same world since iOS 7, 12 years ago.
The glass effects are fancy, but in a HUGE percentage of places the transparency makes things worse.
A lot of the animation/liviness, the “liquid” part of “Liquid Glass”, is very nice and welcome.
My problems are almost all from:
1. difficulty reading/using things since the background shows through unnecessarily and makes things hard to read
2. iOS fighting to change the color of things to keep up with the background during scrolling, all for the stupid effect I just complained about
3. far more wasted space by pulling away from the edges of the screen leaving less useful area
I’ve seen people theorize it will all be great and make sense when some future iPhone with a true edge to edge screen launches.
Great. My new phone was made manifestly worse to help the experience of a phone that I can’t even buy yet. If it exists at all. And that’s why this design is the way it is.
I don’t know how they saved this. Other than just getting rid of some of the fundamental concepts. But they’re gonna have to tone a lot of stuff WAY down in the next few years to try and get this back to usable.
I completely agree with you.
And sometimes depending on the content it’s unreadable that’s for sure.
But they must have an endgame. Maybe they get us used to the UI, users will complain and in 6 months will get used to it and in a year it’s forgotten & updated.
Because if they have a new paradigm then it’s easier for them if people are already used to the UX I guess ?
I guess that’s my problem. At this point I don’t trust that they DO have an endgame. I think this WAS it and they just ignored all the problems.
I’m sure we’ll all get used to it. Just like we got used to a lot of the problems that the iOS 7 redesign brought.
But that doesn’t mean we’re actually moving forward and getting better. We seem to be finding new ways to get worse.
You can look at screenshots of OS X 10.4 or 10.6 and they’re incredibly easy to read. They have good information density. You know what the controls are and things haven’t been hidden like scroll bars.
Yeah there were excesses with iOS 6 and below. And the pixel perfect layout stuff was never going to be viable long-term as phones kept changing size every year or two.
But you could tell what was a button and what wasn’t. You knew if something was just text or a field you could edit. We’ve lost that.
I agree, from all the directions to make their UX foundation evolve that’s the weirdest one. If they don’t have anything else that make sense for it all then it’s the start of the decline for them I guess. I hate android UX, I tried and I hate it, Samsung is the worst for me.
I don’t have a ton of exposure to android but I wasn’t a fan of what I have used. I can’t remember if it was the Samsung version or not but it doesn’t really matter I don’t think I “think like” Google so I don’t think it will ever be a fit for me.
Similarly I’m not a Windows fan. I used it for decades but I’m happier with the way the Mac works. I’ve used Linux, the various GUIs are fine and just like Windows I could live with them. But the Mac works better for me.
So as they destroy both platforms I’m stuck with nowhere to go. It’s not like Windows is getting better.
Though I would probably go to Linux first, just for the Unix guts.
I tried that, but this completely removes the transparency, and some apps look even worse and harder to visualise as it’s not designed to not have the transparency on iOS 26.
This could be significant improvement if Apple let us choose the transparency percentage.
It makes some things better. But it also replaces transparency in some apps with just a solid block of colour. Photos you lose like 10-20% of the screen. The UI used to fit and work well and they just broke it. Maddening.
I certainly won't be upgrading to this version. I already don't really like the current version and see no reason to inflict a Windows Vista-like experience on myself.
I’ve used only iPhones as my main devices since the iPhone 3G but instead of getting a 17 Pro I’ve bought a Pixel 9 Pro and will switch my main mobile to GrapheneOS.
Any specific apps? I'm not having performance issues on an iPhone SE 3, which should be a lot less powerful, but perhaps I haven't bumped into them. Or maybe apps use different resources on a less powerful phone?
Siri was broken for me for the first few days but suddenly began working again! That was frustrating, but I'm happy it's back. I have no clue what fixed it because it wasn't a software update.
Only for a very limited time after the release. And you can’t strictly “downgrade“ it, you have to restore it from factory with the older OS and then reload your back up.
No, you can go back for a while. They’ll certainly ask you, but you can say no.
At a certain part they stop signing the OS. At that point because it doesn’t have the cryptographic signature you can’t install it at all and your only choice is something newer.
With point releases or security updates that tends to be pretty fast because they don’t want people downgrading to something vulnerable. When going from iOS X to iOS X + 1 grace period is usually longer before they stop that.
And, of course, if you try and install an iOS 26 backup on the phone that you just moved back to 18… you’re just gonna be on 26 again. So you better make sure you have the right back up.
They’re getting bolder about pushing you to upgrade with badges on settings and push notifications and defaulting people into automatic updates.
But you can turn that stuff off. They may try to trick you so you have to remain somewhat vigilant. But I don’t think they ever absolutely force you to upgrade.
I think this correlates more to individual culture and interest in general computing than anything else. As you said yourself, the 'lost programmer' isn't curious, isn't interested in the details. They are interested in getting their specific tasks done and collecting a paycheck. Many may have ended up in a field they are not excited about. That's not something you can fix.
As an aside, it will only get worse as the technical implementations get easier. Probably a lot of AI generated SQL queries being put into prod nowadays.
True; but I would argue that even if you don't care that much, when things don't work as expected - you pretty much always need to understand your tools and/or the layers of abstractions that are below. If you don't, not only you're going to feel lost, but you will not be able to solve certain set of problems
If you're writing plain C#, Neovim with the Rosyln LSP is pretty solid. If you're working with Razor Pages, though, may God have mercy on your soul. I can't even find good syntax highlighting, never mind all the other functionality I expect out of a language server.
Visual studio is the only real alternative, for full featured IDE, yes. It is about as useful as Rider imo, but the analyzers and general UX are lacking
Not sure about Vim, but Neovim would likely yield a better experience. I use Emacs and the Vi family editors myself as well as Rider, VS, and VS Code. As painful as it is for me to admit, Rider/VS are hard to beat.
Somehow I doubt telecom infrastructure in NYC is susceptible enough to completely drop service citywide when under attack from one DDoS source. In fact, I suppose this is technically just DoS, because all these SIMs should be served by 1, maybe 2 towers.
