If my employer were using ADP in 2025, I'd have a grim outlook on my job's future.
Every job I’ve ever had has used ADP for payroll.
Readit Newsmanchmalscott commented on Linux 6.18 Expected to Land Google's Rust Binder Driver phoronix.com/news/Rust-Bi... · Posted by u/CharlesW
What is the benefit to the wider Linux ecosystem to upstream what looks to be a very android specific component?
manchmalscott commented on Why do some gamers invert their controls? theguardian.com/games/202... · Posted by u/zdw
I specifically prefer inverted controls in third person (tilting the stick up moves the camera up, so to point at the character it must then tilt the view down), but non-inverted controls in first person (tilting up points my view up).
Have you tried it out, on an old phone for example? I've been trying it through the betas and I grew to hate it less than I expected. You might not, but it might be worth a try. Once again it's a shame that security updates and UI updates are inseparable. If you could do the security update without the feature update, I wouldn't even suggest you try it.
I actually think it's a shame that some of the most ridiculous levels of unreadable layering won't be seen by everyone. Most people will hate on something without ever having seen the full-fat, much worse version. Pulling the Control Centre down over the App Library was great (to giggle at in a beta on a backup phone, not on your main phone). There was also an entertainingly vibrant and dramatic distortion when pulling down the notification screen which has been toned way down. I can genuinely see why Apple thought it was cool, but common sense should have stepped in. Also, I think there's a good argument that UIs shouldn't be cool.
I won't upgrade to it quickly on my main phone but I wondered if I might be able to live with it, and there's a chance that the 26.1 might make it more useable.
I have some family members who updated this week so I have finally seen it in person (I don’t have any spare Apple devices to install beta software on), but I’ve also been watching videos of the various betas on YouTube over the past few months. For sure there have definitely been moments where I’ve seen like, an update in one of the betas where my reaction is “oh good they made that more readable than in the last beta” and then I looked at the same screen on my phone not on the beta and the consistency of the legibility is just night and day. Liquid glass can be presented in specific scenarios that look good, great even. It’s a very neat shader pack. Very “rule of cool”. Unfortunately, I prefer “rule of I can always read the words” and there are plenty of scenarios where liquid glass falls apart, even in the official non beta release.
I first realized that it might be a mess back at WWDC when they showed the apple TV ui, commenting on how the refractive glass “seamlessly blended into the content” or whatever all the while, in their own highly produced advertisement, I couldn’t help but find that the refractions were noticeably distracting. I couldn’t focus on anything else.
It feels like the UX equivalent of watching a Mr beast video, just maximum stimulation all the time. Maybe that’s their strategy for appealing to a new generation of smartphone users (</joking>).
This line very early on about iOS 26 made me worry about the quality of the article:
"Pros:
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+ iOS 26 visual makeover"
This is a review of a new iPhone, so surely most people buying it will be upgrading from an iPhone. What percentage of those people are upgrading from iPhones that aren't also able to upgrade to iOS 26? What is the iPhone 17 having iOS 26 a positive point compared to? An iPhone 15 with iOS 26? An iPhone XS, stuck on iOS 18?
Also, given the mixed reactions to the iOS 26 visual makeover, is it really worth specifically calling out that makeover as being one of the top five features of the phone? The 5th best thing about the phone is something that a lot of people seem to wish they could opt out of forever?
I was initially thinking of upgrading to the 17 pro, I always appreciate better battery and the additional antenna bands could maybe help with the awful cell reception where I live, but buying a new iPhone would mean being forced to use iOS 26, and by extension liquid glass, which you could not pay me to do.
manchmalscott commented on The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug github.com/Zephkek/Asus-R... · Posted by u/signa11
> I used an LLM for wording
It's incredibly obvious. I'm not doubting the actual information here, it's clearly thorough and well researched. The issue is that I cannot _stand_ the hyper-homogenized cadence and style that all LLMs use. It's "Corporate Memphis" all over again. I don't understand why everyone is so violently afraid of something looking like a human being made it?
manchmalscott commented on Next.js is infuriating blog.meca.sh/3lxoty3shjc2... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
As much as I hate Next.js as the next guy, let's please not push full canvas rendering approaches. They SUCK. Their https://www.cogentcore.org/core/ own site is slow to load, scrolling is visually painful since it render at what I assume is 60Hz and not my native much higher monitor refresh rate. They are expensive in terms of computation, wasting resources on the machine, to display text. Want to select text, better hope the developers want you to be able to select text or didn't forget to do so, case in point text inside buttons. Accessibility is also usually much weaker, screen readers often suffer and if they don't something else will.
Canvas instead of DOM -> :(
EDIT: Gave it another try and more issues appear, within seconds of using. The left side has a rendering bug where the selected areas are cut off sometimes, ctrl+zoom does not zoom the page as it does on all normal websites. I can still zoom via menu. Middle mouse open link in new tab doesn't work. Z layer bugs everywhere. I expect more the longer I'd look.
Oh my god, I thought you were exaggerating at least a little.
The “static preview” it shows while it loads (for like 10-15 seconds!) is so much smoother and nicer to scroll around than the actual thing. On mobile, every third scroll attempt actually opens the right click context menu. It’s a stuttering mess on my high refresh rate phone. Nobody should ever make websites like this.
manchmalscott commented on Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/homarp
I think at this point I should just bite the bullet and switch to waterfox. I’m tired of every single update coming with even more things to disable in about:config.
manchmalscott commented on I dumped Google for Kagi arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/thimabi
That's kind of the nature of any subscription that isn't pay-per-use for every action... you're always going to be paying for various things that you don't use/consume.
YouTube premium recently added a “lite” tier. I don’t use YouTube music and I don’t watch shorts or music videos on YouTube, so I’m able to have the channels I watch get compensated without paying for what I perceive as unnecessary and non-core features of the platform.
Clearly such a thing is possible, and a company which insists it isn’t is fundamentally either uncreative or user hostile.
I swear Mozilla must have fired all their QA staff to free up money to throw at AI slop, firefox has become easily the worst piece of software that I still use regularly.
God I miss when I actually liked software, or felt anything other than disgust or apathy towards this industry. Everything sucks now.