Matt Barlow

If you think macOS is bad with its notifications, my Synology just sent me a whole-ass email for yanking a drive

The unreliability of iCloud Tabs combined with the (as far I can tell still present) bug where Safari just randomly loses tabs has me feeling like I’m losing my mind. I’ll go to read an article and it’s either not where I think I left it or not there at all.

Having to Reading List everything just in case

@samir

Our 2020s tech industry loves to automate the easy part and hand-wave away the part that matters

Which itself is pretty much just what Brooks warned about in No Silver Bullet back in the 80s.

We’re pouring hundreds of billions into something that in the absolute best case scenario (for boosters) would only address accidental complexity, and expecting somehow essential complexity will disappear too

Soft touch plastics on electronics are my mortal enemy. In exchange for feeling marginally nicer than hard plastic, they look gross half the time, need cleaning constantly, and are all but guaranteed to degrade and go sticky much quicker than hard plastic.

Am I just abnormally greasy or something? I love my Sony XM6s but every time I take them off they look like I've tried to butter them

I know everyone hated the iPod shuffle that had no buttons and needed headphone remote or voice input but I feel like if Siri got a lot better it could work today for a screen-less Apple Watch focussed on fitness?

Mostly just in the background tracking health stuff but you could use AirPods tap controls or voice for music/calls/etc

In a just world layoffs would be considered an extreme failure of management. Share prices would tumble and boards would be demanding more competent leadership.

@mwichary@mastodon.online sorry if someone already mentioned this to you. From your post about Mini rear lights

> If you use the iPad in landscape mode, the volume buttons seem to go “the wrong way”

They changed this a few years back to change with orientation so they were always “right”. Maybe it only applies to newer models?

For a while there was a setting to toggle between the new and original behaviour, but I can’t find it anymore. Oddly the iPhone is still fixed regardless of orientation.

I think iPad windowing is in a decent place now (Stage Manager still doesn’t really work for me, but at least I can ignore it). But. I _really_ wish resizing a full screen window down didn’t bring both sides in.

It’s confusing that it works differently depending what size the window started at, and it’s never what I want. If I’m making it smaller it’s so I can put something next to it. Stay in the corner!!