Notices by old man and the cbowns (cbowns@xoxo.zone)

installed ios 26 on a phone headed back for replacement (camera dust): big blah. just feels like a such a *needy*, insecure design: it’s got such pick-me energy, a ton of “look what I can do! aren’t you so impressed?!” animations and styling. all this nonsense blooming and showy button selections, like it’s insecure about whether we even appreciate just how ~hard~ it was to make this button why don’t you pay attention to me!

Blech.

@annika steal these toads’ boots?

@annika :blobcatheart:

@annika no no we’ve got it all wrong, he’s just detailing plans for more organized fescue

@annika awesome stuff and great write-up! Thanks for tackling it (again and again)

@annika aha really reframed Patrick’s post for me there
@pbg

@annika as I always remind people parked in the bike lane: tire pressure is a privilege!

(we drive on the right here. And yet… )

@annika this is one of the true joys of the side loaded YouTube app on iOS to remove these and fix a few other UX things. Wild how nice these are to control ourselves

@annika just here to say these replies already look useful, I think I have a similar need as yours and this seems good!

@annika the obvious pelican/“rest of the owl” joke demands to be pointed at (with no specific suggestion of further content)

(“all commit messages must contain bird puns” as precommit hook?)

is there a good write up on how to tell how many favs a post actually has on here? (And why it always seems low except for posts on my home server?)

@pbg gotcha that’s what I thought it was. (They… just don’t federate?)

@annika I had an issue with SuperDuper where `caffeinate` wouldn’t keep the GUI unlocked and something in `asr` would fail when the screen slept (yeah, really) (wild bug?), so I ended up with Coca. What a weird set of tools

@annika just hand em over with made-up exchange rates, “this Quarter Dollar is worth four bananas, that’s why it’s name starts with Quart which Latin for Four Bananas”

@annika (I would 100% read a Painfully Accurate Description if there’s one out there or if you ever type it out; I am here for this nonsense)