My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26.
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz I have not seen anything break in a catastrophic way. I also have not seen too many things fixed or improved, really. The usual bugs that come with a major update are to be expected.
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz Just wait until 18 doesn't get the security fixes from 26.3. It won't be that long, you can make Apple's metrics for 26 look bad, and you can tell yourself that you "had to" when you regret it.
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz my beloved iPhone 13 mini running iOS 18 died a week ago and I ended up with an iPhone 17 running iOS 26… jarring on two fronts, so it’s hard for me to separate out my gripes, but the UI changes are every bit as bad as you’ve heard, even with all of the workaround settings enabled
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz If it’s an older iPad it will slow it down. I’m on the 2018 iPad Pro and it was/is noticeable. You also lose Slide Over if you use that.
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@jwz i refuse to update to ios 26 until i absolutely have to.
@chirpbirb @jwz Unfortunately, everyone should upgrade to iOS 26 immediately because iOS 18 is no longer receiving security updates, and there are vulnerabilities that have been actively exploited.
iPadOS 18, on the other hand, is still safe.
⁃ iPhones capable of iOS 26 → NOT receiving iOS 18 security updates (must upgrade to iOS 26).
⁃ iPads capable of iPadOS 26 → ARE still receiving iPadOS 18.7.x security updates. -
My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz I was hesitant to upgrade to iOS 26 because of all the criticism, but honestly it’s fine. Not only fine, but it’s a delight, and it feels like it really works well for a touchscreen device (rounded fingers → round buttons/rounded corners).
It’s clear that the v26 UI language originated as a touchscreen design that they shoehorned into macOS, where it doesn’t make any fucking sense at all.
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@chirpbirb @jwz Unfortunately, everyone should upgrade to iOS 26 immediately because iOS 18 is no longer receiving security updates, and there are vulnerabilities that have been actively exploited.
iPadOS 18, on the other hand, is still safe.
⁃ iPhones capable of iOS 26 → NOT receiving iOS 18 security updates (must upgrade to iOS 26).
⁃ iPads capable of iPadOS 26 → ARE still receiving iPadOS 18.7.x security updates.@com @chirpbirb My iPhone is running iOS 15.8.5 and you will pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz A lot, according to my sources (close friends who upgraded). I refuse to upgrade. For what it's worth, so annoyed with the Settings app badge was I that I created a shortcut to launch Settings because shortcuts don't show badges.
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@jwz A lot, according to my sources (close friends who upgraded). I refuse to upgrade. For what it's worth, so annoyed with the Settings app badge was I that I created a shortcut to launch Settings because shortcuts don't show badges.
@theorangetheme Turns out that I had "automatic updates" un-checked and only "automatically install security responses" checked, and despite that it is nagging me nightly to upgrade. I guess this isn't a surprise as words no longer mean things.
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz I haven’t heard any regular person say anything good about it. My daughter’s phone upgraded itself overnight and she’s been complaining about it daily. To the point where she’s considering buying a refurbished phone to try to get one that’s not updated.
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@com @chirpbirb My iPhone is running iOS 15.8.5 and you will pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
@jwz @chirpbirb <Hundreds of CVEs simultaneously twirl their mustaches.>
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz I held out. Caved. I now regret it, but I’ve managed to turn off most of the Liquid glAss crap.
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz how old an iPad? I had a late beta on my 9th gen plain-vanilla iPad and it was laggy, but it’s supposed to be ok on newer/less low-end hardware, particularly with more ram.
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@chirpbirb @jwz Unfortunately, everyone should upgrade to iOS 26 immediately because iOS 18 is no longer receiving security updates, and there are vulnerabilities that have been actively exploited.
iPadOS 18, on the other hand, is still safe.
⁃ iPhones capable of iOS 26 → NOT receiving iOS 18 security updates (must upgrade to iOS 26).
⁃ iPads capable of iPadOS 26 → ARE still receiving iPadOS 18.7.x security updates.@com @chirpbirb @jwz there's iOS 18.7.3 for iPhones capable of running iOS 26, but it's only available when enabling "Beta updates for iOS 18".
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz I can’t really say, I can only relate that I have generally found it to be an upgrade on the iPad, at least since the .1. But it definitely depends on how you use it.
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@com @chirpbirb @jwz there's iOS 18.7.3 for iPhones capable of running iOS 26, but it's only available when enabling "Beta updates for iOS 18".
@dchest @chirpbirb @jwz That trick is dead. The beta channel no longer offers 18.7.3 for iPhones.
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz I haven’t used it much on an iPad, but I’ve had it on my phone for a while and it’s mostly fine, I guess. The UI visuals are annoying (to me), and sometimes harder for me to read, but everything seems to work the same way.
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz if you like to have more than ~2 apps on the screen at once, it's a good-ish upgrade (though if you're a slideover user, you won't like the new version). otherwise meh
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My iPad is currently begging me to allow it to upgrade itself from 18 to 26. How much would I regret it if I said yes?
https://jwz.org/b/yk2S@jwz Immensely. The new liquid glass UI is an interactive abortion.
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@cwebber Thanks for sharing. To my ears, it rhymes with this response to the Microsoft-copilot-github encroachment: https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com/
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@cwebber@social.coop exactly. AI can only exist because of human-made content from the Internet, and because humans have been talking with each other over the internet for roughly 30 years at this point, and most of these conversations have been archived somewhere.
So what would happen if this archive disappears? Maybe not the physical medium of the Internet, but the fact of humans speaking with each other over the Internet and recording their conversations, that can disappear. Less and less often people are asking questions of other humans in forums like Reddit or Stack Overflow, and more and more often humans ask questions to AI apps where the conversation cannot be used as more training data as this would create a destructive feedback loop in the signal that the AI is built to predict, which can lead to the AI behaving erratically.
(I originally wrote the above on my blog post from last August, I'm saying this to not plagiarize myself.)
It is kind of like the Internet is a forest of natural content. AI companies have now cut down the forest without planting new trees. They have all the raw material now and are trying (and failing) to profit from it, but in 5 years that information may become out-of-date, will any humans be asking new questions of each other on platforms not mined for content by AI companies? If not, these LLMs will rapidly become more and more innacurate over time.
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Recently, "defund ICE" was the moderate position.
Now, "prosecute ICE" is the moderate position.
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@cwebber Already the forums for VOIP software and embedded stuff (Arduino etc) are fully enshittified - they were toxic enough pre-AI) and folk have simply stopped contributing there (I think this happened just *before* LLMs became popular, so the quality of whatever does go to the training sets isn't going to be much good).
I suspect another factor is when people are getting paid for their work *and* depending on their employers upselling SaaS or other commercial services, they are less inclined to share stuff with the competition (I had to figure out my PJSIP trunk and securing it for myself, most of my findings are tooted here on Fedi as I'm not even sure where else to put them)
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This blogpost makes an astoundingly good case about LLMs I hadn't considered before. The collapse of public forums (like Stack Overflow) for programming answers coincides directly with the rise of programmers asking for answers from chatbots *directly*. Those debugging sessions become part of a training set that now *only private LLM corporations have access to*. This is something that "open models" seemingly can't easily fight. https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop
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A bunch of people are about to be thrown under the bus by Trump.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
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Floppy disk sweaters! Floppy disk sweaters!! https://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-through-digital-decay-a-collection-of-digital-preservation-jumpers-no-one-asked-for-but-478c48009521
