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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 06:14:22 JST Paul Cantrell

   I’ve basically been waiting for this inevitable concession before I upgrade anything. https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115407799375913248

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 06:17:49 JST Paul Cantrell

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     https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/20/ios-26-1-liquid-glass-toggle/

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 06:31:34 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I have to say, I really feel for the folks at Apple who have to keep churning out large-scale look-and-feel changes to differentiate every new version of the OS. It’s hard to constantly generate visibly new stuff when you already did a good job many versions ago, hard not to succumb to the temptation to make your product look like one of those UIs from a sci-fi movie that UI experts use in class as a case study in things that are cool-looking but actually a bad idea.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 06:35:21 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Now, to be fair, what I •really• want is…oh, say, the ability to set a volume level for my daily alarm that’s independent of the volume settings so that I don’t fail to wake up because I turned down my ringer.

     But…I guess that sort of thing doesn’t move sales numbers.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 06:54:39 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • doboprobodyne

     @doboprobodyne

     Others have posted more eloquently than I can about the absurdity of ignoring large-scale switching costs for an isolated feature.

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     doboprobodyne (doboprobodyne@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 06:54:40 JST doboprobodyne

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     @inthehands
     I might be being a thicko here, but I already have that functionality on #grapheneOS ... I guess the question is how bad do you want it? 🤪

     #android #AOSP

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 06:57:20 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Dan Drake 🦆

     @ddrake

     I like that flashlight idea! I use the lock screen as a night vision flashlight.

     I personally keep such a tight grip on what’s allowed to send me a notification on the first place that all the notifications I get are ones I want to read, so no need to use ML to filter them. But I’m an outlier on that front, I think.

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     Dan Drake 🦆 (ddrake@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 06:57:21 JST Dan Drake 🦆

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     @inthehands oooh, me too. I would love if they would, say, throw a bunch of AI stuff at notifications so that I could give it feedback on what I want shown, not shown, which make noise or not, and so on -- and the system would extract patterns and do it for me.

     The other thing I want is a night vision flashlight: sometimes I get up at night and need a little light, but I don't want the crazy bright regular flashlight. Instead, I'd like something that just turns the entire main screen red. That would be less bright, red, but enough for me to see.

     (I hacked this up by just making a tiny web page with an entirely red background that I load up in my browser when I want this "flashlight".)