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Apple in 2007: here’s 400 videos playing at the same time, with interactive search and real-time animations (via https://t.me/ilyabirman_channel/12350)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/13b4ed34-be4f-42ef-8033-fa92ceb12203/1-2RSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 13:51:06 GMTMon, 27 Apr 2026 21:13:22 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:15:11 GMT]]>@freediverx
Yes, I too pine for the days of System 7.5, the Apple Human Interface Guidelines, and the "Platinum" theme by Susan Kare. You really only needed one mouse button.

I agree, modern MacOS is a trash pile.

Nowadays, on my work laptop (MacBook M1), I avoid the MacOS UI/UX by keeping Chrome and Emacs both full screen and switching between them with the Ctrl-Arrow keys. No dock, everything launched with Spotlight or the Emacs Shell. Actually, I do something similar on Windows as well. Super-Tab to switch from Emacs to Chrome and back.

@gullevek @nikitonsky]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fe.disroot.org/objects/09121593-55be-42b4-87eb-e1982fed6687https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fe.disroot.org/objects/09121593-55be-42b4-87eb-e1982fed6687Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:15:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:30:40 GMT]]>@nikitonsky That's the kind of performance I'd expect from running in a virtual machine with CPU emulation and no GPU acceleration.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ublog.mroach.com/users/mroach/statuses/01KQA7ZMV40TNZAYZ3VEKTRY2Jhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ublog.mroach.com/users/mroach/statuses/01KQA7ZMV40TNZAYZ3VEKTRY2JTue, 28 Apr 2026 14:30:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:56:00 GMT]]>@valpackett I am from the industry and no, it doesn’t sound all that crazy. I am familiar with the excuses people usually make about those kind of things, but no, if anyone really wanted and cared, that shit would work in less than 1 frame on 120 Hz display. Besides, you don’t even need to load 40 icons. They are already loaded!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/nikitonsky/statuses/116482438645773565https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/nikitonsky/statuses/116482438645773565Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:56:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:53:26 GMT]]>@Smohc_Stahc Nobody says we can’t do it anymore. The problem is we are not doing. We can, but we don’t

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/nikitonsky/statuses/116482428530482920https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/nikitonsky/statuses/116482428530482920Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:53:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:13:15 GMT]]>@gullevek @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky iOS 7 was unreadable to anyone without perfect eyesight and had issues with knowing where buttons were. I think you’re looking back with rose tinted glasses.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Lenora256/statuses/116482270545351088https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Lenora256/statuses/116482270545351088Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:13:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:58:14 GMT]]>@nikitonsky I just started re-writing an app in AppKit/UIKit because SwiftUI is just too slow 🥲

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dfortes/statuses/116482211490663935https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dfortes/statuses/116482211490663935Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:58:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:16:44 GMT]]>@Lenora256 @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky Ios7 never had so many absolute crap UI decisions ever. Shit was till at the same place and you didn’t have to click five hundred submenus to do the same. It also didn’t make everything almost unreadable on default

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://famichiki.jp/users/gullevek/statuses/116482048285786005https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://famichiki.jp/users/gullevek/statuses/116482048285786005Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:16:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:40:41 GMT]]>@nikitonsky I'm all for dunking on Apple but "loading 40 icons is much harder to do than playing 400 videos" is just one of those things that seem crazy from a "normal person perspective" but make perfect sense from the inside

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/valpackett/statuses/116481906513113273https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/valpackett/statuses/116481906513113273Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:40:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:24:34 GMT]]>@nikitonsky like this was fucking 2007 where real people still had XP on their machines...

this was such a massive "guys, computers can also look really cool you know"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/karolherbst/statuses/116481843167855739https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/karolherbst/statuses/116481843167855739Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:24:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:23:36 GMT]]>@gullevek @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky I didn’t say it was coded for years. I said it was planned for years. It can be planned for years and the implementation still runs into issues. Also, worst redesign ever? No, that’s still iOS 7 on release.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Lenora256/statuses/116481839354686617https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Lenora256/statuses/116481839354686617Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:23:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:21:40 GMT]]>@gullevek @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky Enshittification is a deliberate thing. It is usually done to make money through ads. The performance issues and bugs here are hardly intentional, it’s a skill issue.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Lenora256/statuses/116481831789088731https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Lenora256/statuses/116481831789088731Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:21:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:18:25 GMT]]>@gullevek

Well good thing the person responsible went off to a better paying job at meta.

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Apple’s head of UI design, Alan Dye, is leaving for Meta – a move Bloomberg labelled a “major coup” for Mark Zuckerberg’s

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Now everything will be changed back and lost capability of the OS recovered, right? right????

I'm so glad I switched to Linux. Color correction still has ways to go, but all the rest is so much more … out of my way.

@grishka @Lenora256 @xerz @nikitonsky

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://twit.social/users/iwoakura/statuses/116481819004424036https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://twit.social/users/iwoakura/statuses/116481819004424036Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:18:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:01:37 GMT]]>@grishka @Lenora256 @xerz @nikitonsky iOS has turned into so much crap. In the olden days I could connect my phone to my tv and then have a slideshow with my music there. I could do that since the first iPad. Now whenever I do that I get a mirrored screen. Screw iOS. Went to fucking dogshit too. We can’t have nice things. Everything has to be hyper enshittificateted to the max (als the keyboard input on iOS went to dog shit extreme)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://famichiki.jp/users/gullevek/statuses/116481752926750854https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://famichiki.jp/users/gullevek/statuses/116481752926750854Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:01:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:57:22 GMT]]>@slyborg
Just bought a 2017 iMac 27" and elevated it to Sequoia. They don’t even make decent iMacs anymore …

@nikitonsky @siracusa

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://rheinneckar.social/users/Moss_the_TeXie/statuses/116481736239294760https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://rheinneckar.social/users/Moss_the_TeXie/statuses/116481736239294760Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:57:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:56:49 GMT]]>@gullevek @Lenora256 @xerz @nikitonsky I don't use iOS much, but it's kinda fine there. My only complaint about iOS liquid glass is the very stupid gradient that changes between white and black to maintain contrast as you scroll.

On macOS though... Just give me Mavericks on ARM please. Just roll back all userspace changes that were made during the last 13 years, thanks. I want a real desktop OS, not whatever this crap is.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/grishka/statuses/116481734067176231https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/grishka/statuses/116481734067176231Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:56:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:52:06 GMT]]>@Lenora256 @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky Because is the usual reason. And this time it’s extra shit. My wife never complained so much about not being able to find basic shit anymore. It is just bad. Worst redesign ever. And this was not planned for years else it wouldn’t be full of all those small issues

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://famichiki.jp/users/gullevek/statuses/116481715497317009https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://famichiki.jp/users/gullevek/statuses/116481715497317009Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:52:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:40:00 GMT]]>@nikitonsky @siracusa Remember when the M1 was out and everything was so fast that we even praised how changing screen resolution was instant, as opposed to the black screen and waiting that was all we had ever known? Now we can’t even change a few icon colours properly.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/vitor/statuses/116481667926790310https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/vitor/statuses/116481667926790310Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:40:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:03:42 GMT]]>@Smohc_Stahc how did you even see that

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/felipe/statuses/116481525216297770https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/felipe/statuses/116481525216297770Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:03:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:01:47 GMT]]>@grishka @gullevek @xerz @nikitonsky I don’t think they did this redesign just because, and I don’t think they did the last just because. You don’t plan things out for years just because.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Lenora256/statuses/116481517680041737https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Lenora256/statuses/116481517680041737Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:01:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:56:12 GMT]]>@Mutesplash @nikitonsky AND slow, if it was async lazy everything and fast we wouldn't see anything

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/felipe/statuses/116481495712541543https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/felipe/statuses/116481495712541543Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:56:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:53:27 GMT]]>@xerz @gullevek @nikitonsky well that answers nothing

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/felipe/statuses/116481484907365405https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/felipe/statuses/116481484907365405Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:53:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:40:15 GMT]]>@Lenora256 @gullevek @xerz @nikitonsky it's ok to do it together with a major OS update that gives it new graphical capabilities (classic Mac OS -> OS X). It's also ok to do it if you can't fit some genuinely useful feature into the existing design.

However, doing it "just because" is making your users re-learn to do the same things for no reason.

I'd rather have skeuomorphism forever than the modern atrocity where you don't know what anything is until you try interacting with it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/grishka/statuses/116481432964909110https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/grishka/statuses/116481432964909110Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:40:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:36:38 GMT]]>@borkdude @nikitonsky I sat out the Touch Bar, I can sit this crap out too. Shame that containers aren’t as nice before Tahoe, but I can wait, qemu has my back in the meantime.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/colinfleming/statuses/116481418760943946https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/colinfleming/statuses/116481418760943946Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:36:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 1/2 on Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:31:05 GMT]]>@grishka @gullevek @xerz @nikitonsky I mean, it’s a good idea to do sometimes. I’d rather not still be on skeuomorphic design right now.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Lenora256/statuses/116481396914675692https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Lenora256/statuses/116481396914675692Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:31:05 GMT