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

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.

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.

Perfectly happy with my iPhone 14 Pro Max, which has better build quality than the current offering, and my half decade old Surface Book Pro (running Linux, naturally) – also built like a tank. When I need extra compute or storage, my NAS and home server await. For really serious stuff, I can always fire up an EC2 instance. Propping up the economy through consumerism is not my concern. This feels like a sponsored piece, akin to all of those articles after COVOD exhorting us to go back to the office full time.

Easy to analyze:

• Steeply increasing costs
• Expensive real estate
• Sluggish wage growth
• Mass layoffs
• Economic and geopolitical uncertainty
• Structural change in employment (AI, etc)
• High interest rates / borrowing costs

May I have a job as an AI summarization bot or a highly compensated speaker in Davos next year?

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.

This is the standard of headlines that Ars Technica has descended to? Will they be advising the sanctioned lawyers to use “one weird trick” to get off scot-free in the near future?

Bravo for de-clickbaiting the headline!

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.

The Wikipedia article says nothing about how this material has been archived or backed up. Has it been preserved?

Disturbingly, the IA Wayback Machine has been returning 429: Too Many Requests in response to requests for linked material (for example https://web.archive.org/web/20060206141217/http://www.buddhapia.com/buddhapi/news/campaign/haeinsa/e_p10.html ).

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.

Not your fault! I do appreciate you updating your ost title, however (coming from Reddit, that wasn’t always allowed since some subreddits required post titles to match article headlines). My comment was directed much more at Time Out’s clickbaity journalism practices.

Good Lord. Why not just say Waterloo in the headline. Time Out?

It never seems to get better.