Meh - these icons were bad, but I don't see the disaster

torben-friis 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It was death by a thousand cuts. I am not a designer and Tahoe bothered me enough that, after trying it at work, I've been actively stopping my personal Mac to update, and it was a factor in moving to android.

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Grombobulous 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Liquid Glass motivated me to sell my Mac. But also, Linux becoming genuinely amazing and being able to play all my PC games played a role there as well.

I don’t find Android nearly as compelling, and Liquid Glass seems at least a bit less of a disaster on the iOS platform.

My suggestion to you is follow the Panther Lake laptops that are coming out as your potential future Mac off-ramp. I have a Framework 13 Pro on preorder [1] but some other laptops are also showing impressive results on battery life and GPU performance. If I had more money to blow I would totally grab a Zephyrus G14 2026 with the panther lake CPU and RTX 5070Ti. Although as a programmer’s laptop, the Framework is excellent and the 13 Pro looks like it’s shaping up to be a dream system.

[1] Unfortunately you can’t get the kind of RAM deal that I got for my 13 Pro anymore. As soon as the 13 Pro was announced I pounced on some new old stock of Crucial LPCAMM2 memory, which isn’t available anymore. I paid about $250 for 32GB, which is a “deal,” apparently. As of now you pretty much have to buy it from Framework as nobody else has it at a more reasonable price.

	▲	torben-friis an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for the suggestion! For the moment I'm dual booting, since the m1 MacBook is still a decent piece of hardware for my needs and asahi Linux offers good support. Given the current market I intend to hold on as long as possible, but I'll probably be eyeing the Frameworks when it's time to change. Apple's change of direction makes me hopeful that they'll recover, but the current trends in tech have moved me away from corporate platforms a bit.

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MattDamonSpace 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dead canary

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JumpCrisscross 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Dyed canary.

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CoastalCoder 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You're just parroting the GP.

	▲	DonHopkins 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Is that the hill you want to Dye on? https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

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xdennis 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You have to make accommodation for designers, that's simply their language. If something is misaligned by 1 pixel, it's not an annoyance, it's a catastrophe.

The icons were bad, but the real issue with the new theme is the waste of space and wasting time computing transparencies.