Ah, righto. That was an old rule in many subreddits. Seems to vary a bit by Lemmy community, though. I just cringe at clickbait!

A friendly request - please de-clickbait your headlines and say what the material is (although you do mention it in your summary).

That was a rule in some subreddits. I’ve found that, on Lemmy, de-clickbaiting headlines is generally appreciated.

Fair point!

Thank you both. I’ve never had the honour of having a comment downvoted so many times on Lemmy, so I presume that I raised some Gen Z hackles with my response. I know what an aura is, of course.

The irony of using an AI slop image to decorate this article is not lost on me.

I’m an accomplished native English speaker, but suspect this may be written in a foreign language. strokes beard adjusts bow tie .

I’m not anti-capitalist, I’m just content with the things I have.

Spoiler: it’s a clickbait detector! (The device is actually a “…a compact 360-degree wide-angle 1080p camera that’s perfect for use as an inspection device.”

Sorry, Steve is a little preoccupied in the afterlife: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/08/23/apparently-steve-jobs-is-now-half-a-yak-and-lives-in-a-silver-and-crystal-castle/ (just found this the other day, despite the article being from 2012 and couldn’t resist sharing!)

I’m heartened to see a younger person taking an interest in vintage computing topics! *nix / Linux window manager customization (a la Enlightenment) is still a very active space (for instance, on Lemmy, look at the “unixporn” communities - SFW despite the name, featuring user WM customizations). I hope you’ll continue writing!

Nicely done. I was charmed by the perspective in this article, which struck me as at that of a systems archaeologist rather than someone who was there at the time using the interfaces. I cut my teeth on twm and CDE, eventually moved to fvwm, and then turned pro by becoming a SGI IRIX admin.

The diversity of window managers at the time was impressive; I’d liken it to cars in the 1950s and 60s with chrome, vents and fins in every possible configuration in stark contrast to today’s bland automobile designs. The Enlightenment WM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_(window_manager) ) was a particular favorite due to its customization possibilities.

That just reduces, rather than disabling the effect completely, correct?

When they add a real off switch for Liquid Glass, I’ll upgrade to iOS 26. Until then, 18.7.1 and my trusty 14 Pro Max will sustain me.

Downvoted for:

• Clickbaity headline.
• Annoying YouTube thumbnail face.

One of the fallacies of the EU anti-charger legislation is that the buyer may well have multiple USB-C chargers, but not have one which fulfills the charging requirements of the device (USB-C power delivery is a complicated thicket of wattages and capabilities as this PC World article notes: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2331534/the-bewildering-world-of-usb-c-charging-explained.html ).

The 96W charger shown is at the higher end of USB-C’s power delivery profiles, which further lessens the chance that a user will have an optimal charger on hand.

Thank you for all of these posts. Inspiring!

One can still write to them, of course (the two execs you referenced are <lastname>@apple.com). I wrote to Federighi about the badly redesigned photos app in iOS 18. There was no response, but they fixed a few things in iOS 26, so I like to think my feedback made a small difference.

Downvoted for clickbait headline. TL;DR - cataract surgery.

This is entirely unrelated to the topic at hand, but the Dylan Thomas poem quoted in The Register’s headline has always irked me for its use of gentle rather than the grammatically correct gently. Rage, rage against the dying of the light! – Lemmy’s curmudgeon