Performance of iOS 26 on some iPhones isn't great. Sure, a lot of people complain because they don't like change, but we shouldn't ignore the performance issues and poor legibility on some elements. Those are valid complaints.

Something I've heard from someone that owns an iPhone 16 Pro is that animations are (were?) laggy sometimes. I was also looking at some pictures on an iPhone the other day (unsure about the model, maybe 14?) and it felt like it was dropping some frames while switching apps.

So while it may not be fundamentally broken, it's the type of stuff that would annoy me a lot if I used an iPhone. I never expect to go from a smooth experience to a low-end Android phone experience after a software update.

MacOS... I've avoided upgrading my M4 Max MBP so far after upgrading the M1 Air we have at home. It's just not as smooth as before, even with reduced transparency.

iPhone 16 Pro and Apple TV and Apple Watch have all become noticeably slower/laggier with choppy animation under 26. Totally unacceptable.

I have a 16 pro and haven’t seen any noticeable lagging in the animations.

My M4 Air has been fine after the 26 update. I haven’t noticed any difference in responsiveness.

European banks operating in EU countries, using Euros, and under the European Central Bank already know things work.

Not to mention that some of the alternatives are owned by a consortium of... European banks.

That is not true. EU members barely understand their own regulations and often out source to US firms for this.

> What's wrong with libreoffice

I'm a very light user and only moved to onlyoffice because it was freezing[0] on my then new laptop, but at least on mac, I feel like it needs a UI refresh, icons that are not blurry, a look at the performance when doing basic tasks, etc.

It's free and opensource, which is good, but it's not as polished as other paid alternatives.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038942

If you want to read the replies without an account:

https://xcancel.com/carl_feynman/status/2016979540099420428

https://nitter.net/carl_feynman/status/2016979540099420428

Probably, if your weather app doesn't use a good data source for your area(s).

Try a different app. Some let you choose from a list of different weather sources.

I like Hetzner, but I'd avoid having everything under the same provider.

Sometimes hosting companies suspend accounts. If that happens, it's useful to have your domains and backups with different providers.

I understand the convenience side of this, but it's also risky. What happens if they suspend your account for some reason?

"Never put all your eggs in one basket."

That happened to my google workspace account in 2023, when I switched to Office365. Account was not blocked blocked per se, but they stopped the free workspace versions.

It was not a big problem as I use my own domains that I host separately. Get a new provider, adjust some MX and TXT dns records and you are live again. Backup emails by running thunderbird locally.

But it's not just one politician or just one election. The current guy was elected twice. His position on tariffs, NATO, and Greenland are not new. The movement supporting him is unlikely to disappear any time soon. From the outside, it doesn't look like one wrong step, but just part of the new normal.

It's also important to understand that those on the receiving end of the threats are not taking them lightly. No one's laughing. It's easy to understand the change in behaviour if you understand this.

Back to the European Alternatives stuff, I've been looking at the services I use and which ones might become unavailable if, let's say, the US takes Greenland. It has nothing to do with nationalism, I just don't want to be caught with my pants down.

> A good critique for example is OVH lost a lot of customer data due to a fire. Where was the redundancy? That would make me think twice before switching to OVH.

I lost a VPS in that fire, but I was up and running a few hours later with a new VPS at a different OVH location.

Not to deflect blame away from OVH and their large screw up, but we should never rely only on the redundancy of the hosting provider. Even on AWS, I wouldn't trust them to not lose my data if one of their datacenters burns down.

At the time I was making regular backups to two different providers with servers somewhere else. When I noticed that it was serious, I ordered a new VPS and restored everything. If OVH itself went down, I could have used Scaleway, Hetzner, Contabo, etc.