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Consider this:
My husband and I took a 12 day, 4 state, 21st anniversary road trip in July. I knew we'd be hitting lots of places without cell signals, so I downloaded the entire 16 GB trip, in regional segments, to offline Apple Maps, and loaded up my iPhone with over 25GB of music in Apple Music.

Using CarPlay it turns out there's no way to access any of those things via Siri without an active internet connection! Every time I'd ask Siri to "Take us to [location]," it would come back, "You have to be online to do that." WHAT? "Siri play [name of download artist]," just to again hear, "I can't connect to Apple Music," HUH? Not even, "Siri, access [name of downloaded artist] from my downloaded music on my iPhone," would work!

Yet every fucking time I could pull over, grab my phone, and look up the location / find the artist! I have never in my entire life experienced first hand such an epic failure of technology at its most basic level. I could understand if I didn't have the data and didn't have an internet connection. But holy fucking hell Apple I took every single precaution in advance to ensure that we'd have what we needed, when we needed it, and you failed at having Siri do even the most fundamental task. (The "nerd rage" I had was apocalyptic! Hubs is still teasing me about it.)

A.I. can't fix something that's so horribly broken. They need to rip it out entirely and start over.

Thanks for the name (I’d not heard before). This update is a fucking hot mess and from Apple a shocking fucking hot mess . Liquid Glass does add a few cool UI bits, but nothing that needed an entire UI overhaul.

If you’re going to overhaul the UI you had damn well better test it, and then test it again, and it’s so painfully obvious that they did not .

Within an hour of installing iPadOS 26.1 on my iPad Pro 13 I went to check Notifications by swiping down from the top of the screen (standard UI gesture, done it thousands of times).

However this time:

• I somehow managed to both activate the new hide-away Menu Bar, and
• Grab the top of the ‘window’ of the (fullscreen) app I was in, and
• Drag it into the screen while iPadOS automatically resized the window.

Within a second’s time my entire UI had changed in a way I didn’t want, didn’t do, and didn’t understand. (We’re now in, “30-minute call with my older relative tying to explain what happened,” territory)

That’s bad. That’s really, really bad UI/UX design. However

I then tried:

1. Clicking the new green dot in the window’s title bar to maximize the app back to fullscreen. NOPE!
2. Dragging my new floating window back up to the top of the screen to get it back to fullscreen. NOPE!
3. Gently pulling down at the top to make the hide-away Menu Bar visible and using the “View” menu’s “Maximize” option to get it back to fullscreen. FUCKING ARE YOU KIDDING NOPE!!!

(We’re now way past, “90 minutes on the phone with my older relative, pulling my hair out, trying to quite their crying, while we both do our best to figure out what the fuck is going on,” territory.)

I just installed macOS 26.1 on my Macintosh Studio and it too is hot mess, but a little hot mess. Mostly (so far) it’s just UI elements that don’t mesh well, aren’t aligned, and seem to take up way too much space for what they do.

I’ve used these products since they were released and I’ve never seen an OS update as bad as this one. They really should focus on making AppleOS 26 work, and look good, before they give any thoughts to AppleOS 27.

According to Google A.I. this Gemini integration will hit the public in March or April 2026. Not confirmed, just a maybe...

That's almost two full years after Apple initially introduced Apple Intelligence, a full 18 months after it was supposed to actually be usable by their customers. At this point I don't think it can "undo years of brand damage" no matter how great it's implementation. By the time it maybe, just maybe, is in the hands of consumers those consumers will be even more jaded on the "Promise of A.I.".

Good luck with that Apple!

I'm a YTTV subscriber and received an e-mail just the day before the cutoff that Google would not be renewing their contract. They did mention Disney's live TV offerings. They did not mention the almost 4 BILLION dollars Disney lost due to their trying to stifle Jimmy Kimmel.

I'm sure that Disney raising rates, bundling Hulu with D+ and raising rates, and now this attempt to get more money from Google for carrying their content...have nothing to do with the tremendous loss they suffered due to their own stupidity.

It just seems oddly timed, yeah?

German students have SIX MONTHS of history class covering just WW II. There is literally no stone left unturned when they're taught what happened and why it happened.

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How far away are we from creating Neutron Ice? I'm tired of my Friday night bourbon & rocks getting warm by Monday...

You’re describing the overt functioning of the algo. I can attest, first hand, that some will force content upon you regardless of what you search for.

Take YouTube as a perfect example: I do not, have not, and never will look for religious content on their website nor using their app. No one in my household (i.e.: from our IP address) would do similar searches. Yet about half way through 2023 we both started to inexplicably get YouTube content shown to us of a religious nature. This was in our main wall of recommendations, we well as in Shorts.

The only possibility that makes sense is that YouTube had tuned their algo. to foist upon their users content that YouTube wants them to see, not content the user wants to see. It took about 2 weeks of “Not Interested” and “Don’t recommend this channel” before it stopped.

I have my doubts as well. But then again Apple Inc. is pretty maxed out on revenue gains these days. Some quarters #1 in valuation, some not. Therefore I wouldn't put it past them to be eyeing just that market, and a "loss leader" device to get more people on board with Apple Services. IIRC their past earnings calls usually have Services making them far, FAR more money that hardware...

I enjoy watching videos about theoretical particle physics, space exploration and discussions/lectures on science. Holy crap the last six months has seen an explosion of A.I. Slop videos! Scripts that are ChatGPT-created, voiced by A.I., with imagery that is either A.I. created, or simply stolen from the internet.

For this subject of videos on YouTube I’d say that 1 in 5 are A.I. Slop these days. It’s pretty crazy.

Perhaps to its credit I just noticed last night that YouTube had added this to the description text on a few videos:

How this content was made
Altered or synthetic content
Sound or visuals were significantly edited or digitally generated.

Now if we could just get a setting to completely ignore content with that warning...

My SO and I were talking the other day, and your “Grand Arc” comment mirrors my own question: Do people nowadays even know what a “Mini Series” even is? Hell, do they still have them at all!?

Shows used to run for 26+ episodes a season, always starting in the Fall. So when “Mini Series” were introduced, it was an amazing thing! They were like a really long movie, but unlike the series of the day. they told (a) cohesive storyline(s) across the entire “Mini Series.”

These days an entire season is 8–10 episodes, and as you mentioned they almost all write in “Grand Arcs” instead of having standalone episodes.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” — Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

Of course this is performative, so they can point and misdirect when they eventually get busted asking the same companies to do the same thing but for their own despotic ends. NOT those of another government.

They are manufacturing scarcity within the richest country in the world. If you're scared of losing your job that doesn't really feed your family, because everything that you could afford just got way more expensive, and the bills are piling up, you're too far gone to even remotely think about fighting back. Therefore you hope that the people you voted for will do so for you, and we're seeing in real time how that's playing out.