soapdog

I have the clones from swiss micros.

https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm16c

They are more portable and really good.

guess, I was mistaken. Godspeed there, hope you get what you want.

I don't think that amount will make anyone willing to take in the massive task of making an epub3 compatible reader for TUI. That is a big feature.

No.

have you checked the MNT Reform Next?

Can we add Photos to that list? Can we add it twice cause it is that bad.

oh mozilla, why don't you just focus on Firefox. That is all we want.

apparently if you set to zero, it just disables the feature but I can't see that option here. I don't use shorts at all, I want the feature gone from my ui

the minimum I see here is 15 minutes... there's no zero option. Using YouTube app on iOS in the UK.

you might not be aware, but UK law doesn't actually require Apple to do it. It is targetted at social networks. Even ofcom posted praising Apple for doing it even if they didn't need to. And yes, that law is stupid, but allowing only credit cards as a way to verify an account is also stupid.

Shedding zero tears for an irrelevant comment by an edge lord.

I don't like the App Store experience and sandboxing either. I just find it almost malicious that they added that dialog even for notarised applications. Notarised applications should show no dialog whatsoever, just like App Store ones. It is these little frictions that move users to App Store apps. How many users saw that, had doubts, and then decided to go back to the "safe" walled garden.

that's the thing, it is not an option. The only option is credit card, that is what drove me nuts. If it had other options, it would still be bad, but I'd have a way to solve it even if made me angry. Now, the only way to solve this is literally to order a credit card from my bank and then use it. Which is bonkers.

Everything after Snow Leopard has been downhill in my opinion :3 macOS still my favourite unix but it started feeling is no longer my unix anymore, I'm just a glorified tennant.

I been considering Fairphone cause I want to support smaller vendors and also because it is repairable.

As for Linux distros. The MNT Pocket Reform comes with Debian and I plan to leave it at that even though Debian is not my favourite. I will use Niri and Noctalia with it. I plan to make use of whatever Debian package but if it is too old for my taste, I'll look for AppImages and Flatpaks as needed. I got a Surface Go 1 running exactly that setup but with Fedora and works really well for me.

Want to use KDE Connect to link whatever Android I get with the laptop.

Random nobody here, I can write whatever I want on my own personal blog, you're not required to read it.

author here, the post was mostly about desktop. I don't rely on my phone much but I need it to work as expected when needed.

author here. Yeah, they make their laptops by hand in their lil shop in Berlin, low volumes makes things more expensive. I get it you can get a lot more performance per buck elsewhere, but I want to support a company that creates open hardware and open source software. Also it is the most repairable and upgraded laptop in the world atm.

the law in the UK doesn't require any of that. It didn't even required Apple to do it. Ofcom is praising Apple for doing it even though it was not required. Social Networks need to do it.

I'm the author, some of the tahoe issues can be seen in:

https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-...

there are a lot more, but I don't have the links handy.

Author here. Thanks for engaging is such gentle way, this is rare these days. Let me address some of your comments and maybe you'll understand my position a bit better even if you don't agree.

1.Gatekeeping. OK, fine, but at the very least this has been Apple's stance for a very long time now (the author talks about faxing credit card details), so it's not like it's something new. If you wanted full unfettered installation rights, Apple was never the company for you. And while I think it's fine to argue against Apple's stance, I find most of the arguments are less than honest about the pros of things like developer verification for the end user.

Apple been tightening that control over time. For a long time on MacOS X you could simply run apps. Then came notarisation, but you could still disable it. Now, even with a certificate, it still shows a dialog. I wish that apps that went through notarisation would simply run like the ones from the app store without a dialog showing.

3. (...) the least restrictive route by choosing credit card verification.

But not everyone has a credit card. Those are not something you're born with or required to have or even required to have them issued from the same country you're living in. That is not the least restrictive, that is a very large assumption. What I would have liked to have seen is them providing you with options: "do you want to use credit card verification? National ID? Passport? Credit check? Etc" and then it is up to each user to decide on their risk profile and what they are okay with.

As of now, my only way to verify it is by literally ordering a credit card from my UK bank when I'm pretty happy with my debit cards already.

Author here, didn't realise this was posted on this site. AMA.

Well, maybe I want my docs folder to be useful for humans checking my code and don't care about LLMs at all..

it is quite forward thinking, but for Apple, they are thinking you will need to upgrade.

because all those prices are artificial, Apple is charging what they think they can get away with and also betting on making more money in the long run with subscriptions to iCloud and their other services.

That article almost made me cry. I was reading the NewtonOS 2.0 Human Interface Guidelines yesterday and it was so clear, so well-thought. The mess we find ourselves into in macOS Tahoe is impossible to excuse. I have no idea how that got out of the door.

you can just post a message on bluesky and link it to your blog post at the end with some text saying "want to comment? Reply to this post."

Personally, I prefer using webmentions. I got them back to my site using a combination of services, so if someone talk about a post I made in bluesky or mastodon, I usually get a webmention back to the post.

I wish someone would reimplement/clone Photon Micro GUI it was amazing.

Remember, companies get away with these over the top behaviours cause it costs them nothing to have one less customer.

If this situation somehow escalates until they have to take action, they will already have made so much money that is not a blip.

They don’t care. You as an individual customer means absolutely nothing.

That is disgusting. Totally against the intention of whoever placed a captcha or login page in the website.