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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 21:33:02 JST Aral Balkan

   I’ve turned off automatic updates on my Mac to ensure I don’t run into the same bullshit with the automatic iOS 26 update on the phone and I suggest you do the same.

   Keep the security updates toggle on, though.

   First time I’ve had to take such action in about two decades of owning a Mac.

   🤷♂️

   #apple #macOS #tahoe #liquidAss #trainWreck

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 21:49:59 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Badly-read literary snob

     @RosaCtrl Wow. That’s some dark pattern right there.

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     Badly-read literary snob (rosactrl@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 21:50:00 JST Badly-read literary snob

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     @aral I updated my iPhone because security updates are not delivered to supported devices, sorry

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 06:40:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Henrik Millinge Sørensen 🇩🇰

     @henrikmillinge Easier said than done. My daily driver was a Linux box for five years. I even contributed a bit to a distro. This was the last straw: https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/

     Phone-wise, I have a drawer full of Linux phones gathering dust.

     As I’m not made of money and don’t want to contribute more than I already have to landfills, I’ll be waiting till my current phone croaks before looking at alternatives.

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     Henrik Millinge Sørensen 🇩🇰 (henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 06:40:14 JST Henrik Millinge Sørensen 🇩🇰

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     @aral Why not just ditch all Mac/Apple products ?